Criminal Justice and Judiciary

SB 636 (Harman-R) Death penalty appeals: appointment of counsel
Requires appointed counsel in death penalty appeals to be a member in good standing of the State Bar for a total of five years, and have at least three years experience in handling appeals or postconviction felony proceedings. Provides that the court may, for good cause, appoint an attorney not meeting these requirements.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1320 (Dutton-R) Death penalty: appeals
Makes a number of changes to the process for certifying the record from a trial from which the sentence of death was imposed.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1382 (Cogdill-R) Death penalty: time of execution
Provides that a warrant for execution should be good for a 30-day period.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

Privacy/Identity Theft

SB 29 (Simitian-D) Pupil attendance: electronic monitoring
Requires any local educational agency that chooses to issue a pupil a device that uses radio frequency identification (RFID) for purposes of recording attendance or tracking pupil location to notify and obtain written consent from the pupil's parents or guardian before the RFID device may be issued to the pupil.
Vetoed

SB 30 (Simitian-D) Identity Information Protection Act of 2007
Enacts the Identity Information Protection Act of 2007. Requires, generally, that until 12/31/12, a government entity that issues identification documents that use radio waves to transmit data, or enable data to be read remotely, must implement certain security measures, depending, for the most part, upon the nature of information that is stored on, or transmitted by, the identification documents. Provides that all such identification documents must, at a minimum, incorporate tamper-resistant features and implement an authentication process.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 31 (Simitian-D) Identification documents
Defines a new misdemeanor that is committed where a person or entity, without consent, uses radio waves to remotely read, or attempt to read, another person's identification document. Defines a new misdemeanor that is committed where a person or entity reveals operation keys to a radio frequency identification system. Defines relevant terms and exceptions.
Chapter 746, Statutes of 2008

SB 328 (Corbett-D) Personal information: prohibited practices
Expands the definition of "personal information" to include a telephone calling pattern.
(Died in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee)

SB 364 (Simitian-D) Personal information: privacy
Provides that a notice required under California's data security breach law must contain specified information.
Vetoed

SB 388 (Corbett-D) Privacy: radio frequency identification tags
Requires any private entity that sells, furnishes, or otherwise issues a card or other item containing a radio frequency identification tag to make specified disclosures to the recipient cardholder.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 741 (Ackerman-R) Pupils: identifying information
Encourages, and ultimately requires, school districts to omit the social security number and birth date of a pupil from materials mailed to the pupil's residence or to any authorized individuals.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

SB 751 (Cogdill-R) Identity theft
Specifies that the jurisdiction of a criminal action involving use of another's personal identifying information, as defined, also includes the county where the victim resides, regardless of whether the personal information was used in that county.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 703 (Ruskin-D) Social security numbers
Prohibits a person or entity from using a social security number as an identifier, except as required by federal or state law. Requires that records containing social security numbers be discarded or destroyed in a specified manner, and requires the encryption or locked storage of records containing social security numbers.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 814 (Hayashi-D) Consumer Sales Security Act
Enacts the Consumer Sales Security Act requiring the Office of Privacy Protection to develop an identity theft prevention program for businesses and retailers that will educate them on security methods and procedures to better protect the personal information and financial data of their customers.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)

AB 1504 (Anderson-R) Juvenile court: dependent child
Provides that a child may come within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and become a dependent child of the court if the child has been a victim of identity theft, as defined, perpetrated by the parent or guardian or a member of his or her household.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1587 (De La Torre-D) Personal information: pharmacy
Exempts from the definition of "marketing," for purposes of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, certain written communications given by a pharmacist to a patient when a prescription is dispensed.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1656 (Jones-D) Personal information: security breaches
Prohibits specified entities that sell goods or services from storing or failing to limit access to payment-related information unless a specified exception applies.
Vetoed
A similar bill was AB 1779 (Jones-D) which died in Senate Judiciary Committee.

AB 1906 (Salas-D) Identity theft: insurance
Adds identify theft to the 21 existing classes of insurance that may be transacted in California, provides that identity theft insurance includes insurance against costs associated with reestablishing credit, reclaiming financial identity, and communicating with banks, credit agencies, and other financial institutions, as specified, and sets forth related legislative findings and declarations regarding identity theft.
Vetoed

AB 2021 (Fuentes-D) Personal information: credit cards
Creates an exemption to prohibitions contained in the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act relative to credit card transactions where the cardholder is not physically present for a transaction that takes place over the Internet, telephone, or e-mail.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2126 (Horton-R) Identity theft
Allows forfeiture of computer and related equipment used to commit the following offenses: displaying or possession of a forged driver's license with intent to commit forgery, unauthorized use of a bank or access card for the purpose of committing forgery, and making a false or fraudulent workers' compensation insurance claim.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2362 (Keene-R) State records: personal information: security breaches
Requires state agencies, when collecting personal information from California residents, to provide notification that the residents' personal information is being handled in a secure manner, in order to guard against unauthorized disclosure, and that in the event of a security breach, the resident will be notified in a timely and appropriate manner.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2383 (Ruskin-D) Social security numbers
Prohibits a retail business or landlord from soliciting, requiring, or using an individual's social security number for any purpose unless that number is necessary for that business's normal course of business and there is a specific use for that number for which no other number may be used.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACR 118 (Plescia-R) Identity Theft Awareness Day
Proclaims March 3, of every year, as Identity Theft Awareness Day.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

Domestic Violence

SB 605 (Alquist-D) Santa Clara County: domestic violence
Authorizes the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, upon making findings and declarations of the need for governmental oversight and coordination of domestic violence agencies, to increase fees for certified copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death records, and death records by up to $4.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
Identical to AB 1275 (DeSaulnier-D) which died in Senate Local Government Committee.

SB 1356 (Yee-D) Domestic violence: victim's testimony
Prohibits the incarceration of a domestic violence victim witnesses for contempt when the contempt consists of refusing to testify concerning that domestic violence, and in this way extend the existing law that applies to victims of sexual assault to victims of domestic violence crimes, as specified.
Chapter 49, Statutes of 2008

SB 1523 (Kuehl-D) Domestic violence: information
Requires that information provided to domestic violence victims by local law enforcement officers be translated into the languages of each limited-English-proficient group that constitutes 5% of 1,000, whichever is less, of a law enforcement agency's jurisdiction.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 95 (Beall-D) Domestic violence: probation: treatment programs
Requires that if a court grants probation to a person convicted of domestic violence the court must impose formal probation, rather than summary probation, regardless of whether the offense is a felony or a misdemeanor, until the defendant has completed the required batterer's treatment program. Authorizes the court to place a domestic violence defendant on summary probation once he/she has completed the required batterer's treatment program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 375 (Garcia-R) Domestic violence: probation
Provides that if a probationer convicted of domestic violence has violated the attendance policy of the batterer's program or counseling program, the judge may withhold issuance or renewal of, or suspend, a driver's license or professional license.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1125 (Richardson-D) Protective orders: domestic violence
Authorizes a law enforcement officer to issue an emergency protective order in domestic violence cases without contacting the court, if certain conditions apply, including that the superior court has issued a standing order authorizing a law enforcement officer to issue an emergency protective order for that court, and the officer believes there is an immediate and present danger to the victim. Requires the superior court of each county to adopt policies and procedures that maximize the accessibility and availability of emergency protective orders. Requires law enforcement officials in each county to adopt policies that strongly encourage law enforcement officers to request emergency protective orders.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1275 (DeSaulnier-D) Domestic violence: child abuse: fees
Authorizes a county board of supervisors, upon making findings and declarations supporting the need for governmental oversight and coordination of the multiple agencies dealing with domestic violence and child abuse, to authorize an increase in the fees for certified copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death records, and death records, for the purpose of funding governmental oversight and coordination of the multiple agencies dealing with domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, and family violence prevention, early intervention, and prosecution efforts in the county, up to a maximum increase of $4.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
An identical bill was SB 605 (Alquist-D) which died in Senate Local Government Committee.

AB 1648 (Leno-D) Domestic violence: domestic partners
Provides that abuse perpetrated against a registered domestic partner or a former registered domestic partner is "domestic violence." Provides that it is a felony for any person to willfully inflict corporal injury resulting in a traumatic condition on that person's registered domestic partner or former registered domestic partner.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1771 (Ma-D) Domestic violence: restraining orders
Expressly authorizes a court in a domestic violence case to consider the underlying nature of the offense charged, and specified related information required under current law for these cases, in determining whether good cause exists to issue a protective order, as specified.
Chapter 86, Statutes 2008

AB 2035 (Ma-D) Domestic violence
Provides that liability for arrest during a domestic violence call involving mutual protective orders applies to the person reasonably believed to be the "dominant aggressor."
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

AB 2052* (Lieu-D) Domestic violence: residential tenancies
Authorizes a tenant to notify the landlord in writing that he/she or a household member, as defined, was a victim of an act of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, as defined, and intends to terminate the tenancy.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2008

AB 2068 (Aghazarian-R) Domestic violence
Enacts a statute expressly authorizing local law enforcement to notify persons who are protected by certain protective orders by electronic or telephonic means within 24 hours after service of process that the order has been served on the restrained person if the protected person has requested to be notified.
Chapter 153, Statutes of 2008

AB 2231 (Hayashi-D) Domestic violence: marriage licenses
Extends the sunset date for specified counties to authorize an increase in marriage license fees from 1/1/10 to 1/1/15, and requires participating counties to submit a report to the Legislature by 7/1/14.
Vetoed

AB 2405 (Arambula-D) Domestic violence: fees
Imposes an additional $350 fee on people convicted of specified domestic violence offenses to be used to fund domestic violence prevention programs that focus on assisting immigrants, refugees or persons who live in a rural community.
Chapter 241, Statutes of 2008

AB 2428 (Strickland-R) Protective orders: victim notification
Requires any law enforcement officer who serves an ex parte protective order to submit the proof of service directly into the Domestic Violence Restraining Order System at the time of service, and to transmit the original proof of service form to the issuing court within one business day of service.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2487 (Berg-D) Domestic violence: restitution
Authorizes referral of civil judgments awarded to a victim of gender or domestic violence to the Franchise Tax Board for collection
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2553 (Solorio-D) Domestic violence: ex parte orders.
Requires the court to provide its reason for denying a petition for an ex parte order

enjoining harassment, threats, and violence. Requires any order denying a jurisdictionally adequate petition for an ex parte order to provide the petitioner the right to a noticed hearing on the earliest date that the business of the court will permit. Provides that nothing in these provisions shall preclude a petitioner who waives his/her right to a noticed hearing from refilling a new petition, without prejudice, at a later time. Requires the Judicial Council to develop a form to implement these provisions on or before 1/1/10.
Chapter 263, Statutes of 2008

AJR 42 (Garcia-R) Domestic violence
Urges Congress to protect funding and maintain programs, laws, regulations, and policies that assists victims of domestic violence, as specified.
Resolution Chapter 129, Statutes of 2008.

Child Abuse

SB 126 (Harman-R) Child abuse and neglect
Requires employers to provide their employees who are mandated reporters with training resources on how to recognize specified types of crimes against children.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1022 (Steinberg-D) Child abuse: central index
Requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to remove information relating to a person whose name is listed in the Child Abuse Central Index as a suspect in a child abuse or neglect investigation due to an incident that occurred when the person was under 18 years of age, if the incident did not result in a delinquency adjudication or criminal conviction, and he/she makes a notarized written request to DOJ to have his/her name removed as a suspect with respect to that incident. Requires DOJ to notify the current caregiver, the parents or legal guardian, the attorney, and the guardian ad litem of a minor if the minor is the suspected abuser.
Vetoed

SB 1339 (Simitian-D) Government tort claims: childhood sexual abuse
Exempts childhood sexual abuse claims filed against local public entities from the Government Tort Claims Act, which generally requires claims for damages to be reported to the local entity within six months of when the injury occurred.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SCR 81 (Battin-R) Child Abuse Prevention Month
Acknowledges the month of April 2008 as Child Abuse Prevention Month and encourages Californians to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
Resolution Chapter 24, Statutes of 2008

AB 116 (Aghazarian-R) Child abuse: endangerment: controlled substances
Makes it a felony, punishable by 16 months, two or three years in the state prison, for any parent, guardian, or caretaker of a minor child to knowingly consume, smoke, inhale, or ingest cocaine, cocaine base, methamphetamine, LSD, or Ecstasy if the act occurs in the presence of, or is witnessed by, a minor child under his or her care.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 499 (Swanson-D) Commercially sexually exploited minors
Authorizes a discretionary pilot project in Alameda County to encourage the development of a comprehensive, replicative, multidisciplinary model reflecting the best practices for the response of law enforcement and the criminal and juvenile justice systems to identify, assess and address the needs of commercially sexually exploited children who have been arrested or detained by local law enforcement.
Chapter 359, Statutes of 2008

AB 534 (Smyth-R) Crimes against children
Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to publish information, as defined, describing or depicting the physical appearance of a child, the location of a child, or locations where children may be found, with the intent that another person use the information to commit a crime against a child, and the information is likely to aid in the imminent commission of a crime against a child. Authorizes the parent or legal guardian of a child about whom information is published to seek a preliminary injunction enjoining any further publication of that information.
Chapter 423, Statutes of 2008

AB 755 (Lieber-D) Corporal punishment
Authorizes the finder of fact in a prosecution, when determining whether a defendant willfully caused a child to suffer, pursuant to current law regarding harming a child, to consider seven specified violent scenarios, though proof of the conduct referenced is not sufficient by itself to prove guilt.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1275 (DeSaulnier-D) Child abuse and neglect: vital records: fees
Authorizes any county board of supervisors to increase the fees for marriage certificates, birth certificates, and death records to fund domestic violence, as well as child abuse and neglect coordination efforts.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)

AB 1299 (Fuller-R) Child abuse review teams
Authorizes members of children's multidisciplinary teams, persons, or agencies engaged in the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse to inspect juvenile case files.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1475 (Galgiani-D) Mandatory child abuse reporting: computer technicians
Adds "commercial computer technicians" to the list of mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters under the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1694 (La Malfa-R) Crime: lewd acts with a minor
Reduces the age for which a person may be convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor 14 or 15 years of age to where the offender is seven or more years older than the victim, rather than 10 or more years older than the victim.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1987 (Villines-R) Child abuse by force: sentencing
Provides that where a person with care and custody of a child assaults the child through force likely to produce great bodily injury and the child becomes comatose due to brain injury or suffers permanent paralysis, as defined, the person shall be punished by an indeterminate prison term of 15-years-to-life.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2190 (Emmerson-R) Child abuse: witnessing domestic violence
Requires that effective 1/1/09, a law enforcement officer must notify the local child welfare agency whenever substantial evidence exists to support a finding by the law enforcement officer that a child has been exposed to secondary abuse by witnessing an incident of domestic violence that results in a traumatic condition being inflicted upon a custodial parent or guardian of that child.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2337 (Beall-D) Child abuse reporting
Adds alcohol and drug counselors, defined as persons providing counseling, therapy, or other clinical services for a state licensed or certified drug, alcohol, or drug and alcohol treatment program, as mandated child abuse and neglect reporters.
Chapter 456, Statutes of 2008

AB 2618 (Solorio-D) Child abuse central index
Authorizes the Department of Justice to make information it maintains in the Child Abuse Central Index available to county child welfare agencies or delegated county adoption agencies conducting a background investigation of an applicant seeking employment or volunteer status with the agency who, in the course of his/her employment or volunteer work, will have direct contact with children who are alleged to have been, are at risk of, or have suffered, abuse or neglect. Double-joints with SB 1022 (Steinberg-D).
Chapter 553, Statutes of 2008

AB 2651* (Aghazarian-R) Child welfare laws: child abuse registry
Makes additional federal conformity changes to various child welfare laws, and ensures the continuation of child welfare federal funding. Specifically requires that the state comply with the federal provision that requires the state to have safeguards in place to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of information in any child abuse and neglect registry maintained by the state and prevent the information from being used for a purpose other than the conducting of background checks in foster or adoption placement cases.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2008

Sex Offenders

SB 194 (Battin-R) Sex offenses: Internet
Adds persons convicted of felony child pornography crimes to those required to post offender information on the Department of Justice's Megan's Law web site.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 222 (Cogdill-R) Public records: personal information
Provides that the California Public Records Act shall not be construed to require disclosure of any record in the custody of the Department of Mental Health that includes the address, telephone number, or other personal information of a victim of any person who is either a sexually violent predator, based on having been convicted of specified crimes, or is in the custody of the department pending a determination as to whether he or she is a sexually violent predator. Authorizes the department to provide a copy of a record with this information if that record is otherwise subject to disclosure pursuant to the act and if all of the personal information of the victim is redacted. Makes legislative findings that any limitation on the public's right of access to government information made by this bill is necessary to protect the health and safety of a victim of a sexually violent predator.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 256 (Alquist-D) Statutes of limitations
Eliminates the statute of limitations for the crimes of rape, sodomy, lewd act on a child or dependent person, oral copulation, continuous sexual abuse of a child, sexual penetration, or flight to avoid prosecution for any crime that requires registration as a sex offender, allowing prosecution for these offenses at any time.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
Similar bills were AB 261 (Lieber-D) and AB 803 (Strickland-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

SB 479 (Hollingsworth-R) Impersonating a peace officer to commit a sex act
Enacts a five-year enhancement of sentence where the perpetrator of a kidnapping, or a specified sex offense, impersonated a peace officer in committing the offense. Enacts a two-year enhancement of sentence where a peace officer abuses his/her authority and status to commit such a crime.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 501 (Hollingsworth-R) Registered sex offenders
Requires that every registration, reregistration, and preregistration required by the sex offender registration statute be signed under penalty of perjury.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 502 (Hollingsworth-R) Sexually violent predators: GPS
Requires any person released unconditionally from the sexually violent predator civil commitment program to be monitored by global positioning system for life.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 503 (Hollingsworth-R) Sexually violent predators
Provides that in a trial held pursuant to a judicial finding that a person is no longer a sexually violent predator, the jury shall be instructed by the court that failure to engage in treatment shall be considered evidence that the person's condition has not changed. Provides, in connection with such trials, that "completion of treatment shall be a condition of release."
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 590 (Battin-R) Child sexual exploitation: Internet
Establishes the California Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Competitive Grant Program, to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services, to provide funding for state and local law enforcement agencies to combat online sexual exploitation of children. Provides that funding for the grant program is subject to appropriation in the Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 640 (Simitian-D) Government tort claims: childhood sexual abuse
Exempts claims for childhood sexual abuse against a local public entity, arising out of conduct occurring on or after 1/1/09, from the Government Tort Claims Act.
Chapter 383, Statutes of 2008
A similar bill was SB 1339 (Simitian-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

SB 913 (Hollingsworth-R) Sex offenders: group homes
Expands the existing law which prohibits sex offenders on parole from residing in any single family dwelling with any other registered sex offender to include residential facilities which serve six or fewer persons.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 914 (Hollingsworth-R) Community care facilities: housing sex offenders
Allows local jurisdictions to require community care facilities housing an adult or juvenile sex offender to obtain a business license.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

SB 915 (Hollingsworth-R) Group homes housing sex offenders: zoning
Authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt a local ordinance to zone as an adult-oriented business any community care facility that houses a parolee for whom registration as a sex offender is required.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1105 (Margett-R) Teacher credentialing: criminal convictions
Expands the definition of "conviction" when applied to suspending or revoking teaching credentials to include pleas of nolo contendere, allows the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to make adverse action findings available for up to five years, as specified, and requires the Legislature to convene a workgroup to study Sections 44010, 44011, and 44424 of the Education Code, and to report on its findings before 12/1/09.
Chapter 577, Statutes of 2008

SB 1163 (Maldonado-R) Sex offenders: vehicle license plates
Requires that, for crimes committed on or after 1/1/09, the sentencing court shall order that any person required to register pursuant to Section 290 not operate a motor vehicle unless it is displaying a license plate or a sticker, as specified, that indicates that the driver is a registered sex offender. Failure to comply with this provision is a misdemeanor. Provides that any person who knowingly disguises or alters a license or sticker plate that indicates that the driver is a registered sex offender to make it appear that the license or sticker does not indicate that the driver is a registered sex offender is guilty of a misdemeanor. Provides that any person who harasses, annoys, or otherwise threatens a person required to operate a motor vehicle displaying a license or sticker plate that indicates that the driver is a registered sex offender is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or by up to one year in the county jail. Provides various exemptions, as specified, from the requirement to display a license plate that indicates that the driver is a registered sex offender.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 1178 (Aanestad-R) Dentistry: registered sex offenders
Requires the Dental Board of California to deny licensure to individuals who are required to register as sex offenders under federal law and closes loopholes that allow the reinstatement of licenses for sex offenders.
Chapter 517, Statutes of 2008

SB 1187 (Battin-R) Sex offenses: Internet: public information
Includes, commencing 1/1/10, specified felony child pornography offenses on the Megan's Law Internet web site.
Chapter 598, Statutes of 2008

SB 1203 (Runner-R) Crime: sex offenders
Provides that for any person being evaluated as a sexually violent predator, parole shall toll from evaluation through the period of commitment, including conditional release under court monitoring, if any, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 1243 (Correa-D) Mentally disordered offenders: recommitment hearing
Allows a prosecutor to file a mentally disordered offender recommitment petition, regardless of whether the treating clinician and the Department of Mental Health medical director conclude that the mentally disordered offender patient is in remission. Allows a petition for recommitment to be filed after the preceding commitment has expired, if good cause is shown.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1253 (Alquist-D) Sex offenders: assessments
Requires the State Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO) Review Committee to monitor, train and score SARATSO assessments, authorize experts to access data about California sex offenders, and provide for individuated reviews where a SARATSO scoring agency believes an individual score is too high or too low. Requires Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Department of Mental Health to record risk assessment scores in a database, including any submitted by a probation officer, and clarify that probation reports include SARATSO results for those recommended for sex offender registration by a probation officer.
Vetoed

SB 1302 (Cogdill-R) Sex offenders: sentencing provisions
Makes conforming and technical changes to various sentencing provisions, particularly sex crime sentencing provisions.
Chapter 599, Statutes of 2008

SB 1546* (Runner-R) Sexually violent predators
Provides that the Department of Mental Health (DMH) may contract with independent evaluators to perform initial evaluations of inmates for possible civil commitment as sexually violent predators. Provides that this authority shall remain in effect until 1/1/11. Provides that DMH shall semi-annually report to the Legislature on progress in hiring of full-time DMH employees to do sexually violent predator evaluations.
Chapter 601, Statutes of 2008

AB 115 (Horton-R) Sex offenders: registration
Requires, beginning 6/1/10, that the information required for registration or reregistration of sex offenders include all e-mail addresses, Internet service providers, and instant messaging identities that may be used by the person, as specified. Requires, beginning 6/1/10, a registering person to notify certain law enforcement personnel within five days of changes or additions to that person's Internet service providers. Requires the registering agency to submit the required information regarding Internet services to the Department of Justice Violent Crime Information Network.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 348 (Garcia-R) Sex offenses: enforcement teams
Appropriates $15 million from the General Fund to the Office of Emergency Services for allocation, through 1/1/11, to county sheriff, probation, and city police departments who contribute officers to Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team programs for proactive monitoring, tracking, and arrest of habitual sex offenders.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 370 (Adams-R) Sex offenders: residency restrictions
Allows a city or county to include within the local definition of a single-family dwelling a residential facility which serves six or fewer persons.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 379 (Galgiani-D) Crimes: children
Changes the penalties from three, six, or eight years in state prison to 25 years to life for any person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, as defined, upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of a child who is under the age of 14 years, under specified circumstances, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person or the child.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 386 (Benoit-R) Sexually violent predator proceedings: release notification
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contact local law enforcement if the Department of Mental Health does not recommend a person, who was held beyond his/her scheduled release date for a sexually violent predator evaluation, be committed as a sexually violent predator. Provides that the purpose of the contact establishes, with local law enforcement, plans for the placement and supervision of the person when paroled and plans for community notification.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 440 (Parra-D) Sex offender data
Requires district attorneys to collect and submit annually to the Attorney General, for purposes of a report from the Attorney General to the Legislature, information regarding the disposition of specified child pornography offenses and offenses involving the luring of a child, including offender profiles by race, age, gender, and ethnicity, with particular focus on felonies that are reduced to misdemeanors.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 442 (Parra-D) Sex offenses
Provides that where a defendant is convicted of specified obscenity crimes involving minors, or child pornography crimes, and the person has been previously convicted of any crime for which registration as a sex offender is required, the defendant shall receive a prison term of two, four, or six years in prison.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 487 (Garcia-R) Parole: sex offenders: specialized supervision
Requires a parolee whose commitment offense is a sex crime against a child under the age of 14 years to be placed on intensive and specialized parole supervision, including supervision by a parole officer responsible only for monitoring sex offenders, who has received specialized training in sex offender management, and a caseload of no more than eight to one.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 589 (Levine-D) Pupils: teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention
Requires school districts to develop policies, procedures, and training regarding the prevention of teen dating violence and sexual violence.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 601 (Arambula-D) Sex offenders
Requires the Department of Justice to create a Rural Communities Public Safety Task Force that will develop ordinances intended to assist local governing bodies representing rural communities exercising authority afforded to them under "The Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Act: Jessica's Law" (Proposition 83, November 2006).
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 718 (Fuller-R) Sex offenses: statutes of limitations
Deletes the two-year time frame in which DNA evidence must be tested after it is collected in order to preserve the statute of limitations in sex offense cases.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 803 (Strickland-R) Statute of limitations: sex crimes
Eliminates the statute of limitations for specified sex crimes committed against a person under the age of 18 - rape, sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts, with a child, forcible oral copulation, continuous sexual abuse of a child, sexual penetration, and fleeing the state with the intent to avoid prosecution for sex offense - by deleting the requirement that the prosecution must commence before the victim's 28th birthday.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1068 (Cook-R) Sex offenders: schools
Creates a new infraction for any person required to register as a sex offender, as specified, who is found in a parked motor vehicle within 200 feet of a school that provides kindergarten and grades one through 12, inclusive, without lawful business.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1176 (Spitzer-R) Sexually violent predators
Requires petitions for release of sexual violent predators to be heard in the offender's county of domicile rather than the county of commitment.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1191 (Parra-D) Sex offenses against children
Makes it a misdemeanor for a person to publish information via the Internet relating to the location of children or a place where children regularly gather, with the intent the information be used to commit a specified sex offense involving a person under 18 years of age.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1197 (Aghazarian-R) Sex offenders: housing
Provides that denial or termination of tenancy in rental housing of a person who has been convicted of the commission or attempted commission of specified offenses listed in Section 290.46(b)(2) of the Penal Code is presumed to protect a person at risk.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1235 (Fuller-R) Sex offenders: Internet web site: GPS monitoring
Requires the Department of Justice to post additional information on its Megan's Law web site, specifically, whether a registered sex offender is on parole for the registerable offense and/or whether the offender is being monitored by a Global Positioning System device or other electronic means.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1348 (Spitzer-R) Sexually violent predators: conditional release program
Prohibits a sexually violent predator from being placed on conditional release unless a court of law finds the person has completed all phases of the treatment program with progress in treatment.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1389* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: Jessica's Law
Enacts the 2008 General Government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, directs the Commission on State Mandates to review and reconsider its previous decision that state law establishing the Sexually Violent Predator Program is a state-reimbursable local mandate in light of the voters' passage of Jessica's Law in 2006.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2008

AB 2007 (Horton-R) Sex offenders: Internet web site
Requires the Department of Justice to add the following information to its Megan's Law site by 6/1/12, whether a sex offender registrant was convicted of another sex offense while registered, and victim gender.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2169 (Cook-R) Sex offenders: ice cream truck operations
Prohibits a city or county from issuing a license to operate an ice cream truck to any person required to register as a sex offender due to a conviction for a crime against a person under age 16.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2334 (Sharon Runner-R) Sexually violent predators: parole
Defines a "frivolous petition", as specified under provisions of existing law, as a petition not supported by competent and admissible evidence that substantiates and corroborates the petitioner's claim that he/she has so changed he/she will not be a danger to others in that it is not likely that he/she will engage in sexually violent criminal behavior if placed under supervision and treatment in the community.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2354 (Galgiani-D) Sex offenses: obscene matter
Provides that the offense of possessing, preparing, or distributing obscene material, as specified, that depicts a minor personally engaging in or personally simulating sexual conduct is punishable by imprisonment in state prison and by a fine not exceeding $10,000.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2363 (Ma-D) Sex Offenders Management Board
Authorizes the Sex Offenders Management Board, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to conduct an assessment of the reliability of rental housing for sex offenders, as well as the effect on public safety of making registration or specified information disclosed a basis upon which to refuse to rent to or terminate the tenancy of a registered sex offender.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2408 (Nava-D) Sexual offenses by juveniles
Statutorily excludes minors alleged to have committed specified sex offenses from eligibility for deferred entry of judgment, as enacted by Proposition 21 in 2000.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2410 (Nava-D) Crime: sexually violent predators
Prohibits disclosure in a sexually violent predator case of information about the victim of a prior qualifying sex crime, except as is necessary to litigate the matter, or pursuant to court order. Provides that willful violation of the prohibition is a misdemeanor. Authorizes the court to describe the victim in court documents and proceedings as Jane Doe or John Doe, unless that prejudices either party. Provides that the court shall instruct the jury that the use of a Doe name is done to protect the victim's privacy.
Chapter 155, Statutes of 2008

AB 2593 (Adams-R) Sex offender information
Provides that a paroled sex offender cannot be placed in a single hotel room with another person required to register as a sex offender. Requires the Department of Social Services, on a quarterly basis, to compare sex offender residence address information against the addresses of all licensed facilities and to take appropriate action, as authorized by law. Provides that any peace officer employed by the State of California shall have full Internet access to sex offender data and photos. Authorizes any peace officer to share sex offender information with licensing or legal staff charged with ascertaining and enforcing licensing rules and regulations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2681 (Smyth-R) Sex offenders: Internet access
Requires specified registered sex offenders to inform the registering agency whether they have access to a computer. Adds computer-related conditions of probation or parole.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2718 (Sharon Runner-R) Child molestation
Provides that a person may be enjoined from contact with children, or from disseminating information about or pictures of children where the person has shown an unnatural sexual interest in children by, in part, disseminating information about or pictures of a child or children who are the subject of sexual interest.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2960 (La Malfa-R) Custody orders: evidence of sexual abuse
Includes sexual abuse of the child, where the court determines that the acts of sexual abuse are of recent origin or are a part of a demonstrated and continuing pattern of acts of sexual abuse, within the definition of "immediate harm to the child," a showing of which authorizes a court to make an order granting or modifying a custody order on an ex parte basis.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2008

AB 3038* (Tran-R) Sex offenders: probations
Authorizes disclosure of the identity of a sex offense victim for purposes of an investigation by the probation department, not only for pre-sentence reports.
Chapter 596, Statutes of 2008

ACR 44 (Maze-R) Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Designates the month of April hereafter as Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

Controlled Substances

SB 591 (Cogdill-R) Methamphetamine possession
Increases the penalty for possession of methamphetamine from a wobbler to a straight felony, punishable by imprisonment in state prison for 16 months, two years, or three years.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 592 (Cogdill-R) Methamphetamine: liability
Amends the Methamphetamine Contaminated Property Cleanup Act of 2005 by authorizing the Department of Toxic Substances Control to establish and administer a grant program to reimburse property owners for costs associated with remediation and other specified actions, as required under the Act, which the property owner is unable to obtain from a liable party or is unable to identify a potentially responsible party for the contamination.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 628 (Correa-D) Controlled substances
Re-establishes the California Drug Endangered Children Act, to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services (OES) in consultation with the Health and Human Service Agency. Provides that OES would award competitive grants to drug endangered children programs in up to 10 counties with funding for the grant program subject to appropriation in the Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 992 (Wiggins-D) Substance abuse
Creates a licensure category for adult recovery maintenance facilities, which are designed to help individuals maintain their newly acquired drug and alcohol sobriety, to be regulated and enforced by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
Vetoed

SB 1098 (Migden-D) Medical marijuana
Provides a tax amnesty program to medical cannabis (marijuana) dispensaries.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SJR 20 (Migden-D) Medical marijuana
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation requiring the Drug Enforcement Administration, and all other federal agencies, to respect a state's compassionate use laws regarding medical marijuana, and requests federal law enforcement agencies to enforce federal drug laws relating to medical marijuana in a manner consistent with the laws of California and its political subdivisions.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 116 (Aghazarian-R) Child abuse: endangerment: controlled substances
Makes it a felony, punishable by 16 months, two or three years in the state prison, for any parent, guardian, or caretaker of a minor child to knowingly consume, smoke, inhale, or ingest cocaine, cocaine base, methamphetamine, LSD, or Ecstasy if the act occurs in the presence of, or is witnessed by, a minor child under his/her care.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 259 (Adams-R) Controlled substances: Schedule I
Makes Salvia divinorum and Salvinorin A a Schedule I controlled substance for the purpose of criminalizing the unlawful possession, possession for sale, and sale of these substances.
Chapter 184, Statutes of 2008

AB 278 (Huff-R) Controlled substances
Provides that a person who possesses or uses a false compartment to store, smuggle, or transport a firearm, explosive device, or at least $5,000 for, or from, commerce in controlled substances shall be guilty of an alternate felony-misdemeanor.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 318 (Silva-R) Controlled substances
Increases the penalties for the possession for sale of cocaine and methamphetamine to imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or five years.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 336 (Dymally-D) Substance abuse
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to conduct a pilot project in two counties aimed at reducing recidivism rates by jointly treating addiction and joblessness, by providing intensive employment services along with substance abuse treatment.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 337 (Dymally-D) Cocaine penalties
Provides identical punishments for violations of laws related to cocaine powder and crack cocaine.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

AB 441 (Parra-D) Methamphetamine
Requires any person granted probation after conviction for the sale of methamphetamine to serve at least 120 days in the county jail.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 496 (Villines-R) Controlled substances: forfeiture
Revises, effective 7/1/08, the formula for the distribution of funds from the proceeds of drug-related asset forfeiture.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1141 (Anderson-R) Controlled substances: khat and cathinone
Places khat (parts of the plant Catha Edulis) and cathinone in Schedule II of the controlled substances schedules, thereby making commerce in each substance a felony. Places cathine in Schedule IV, thereby making commerce in this substance a felony. Provides that possession of khat, cathine or cathinone is a misdemeanor. Allows defendants to be directly prosecuted for crimes involving these substances, rather than requiring proof that the substances are analogs of amphetamine in order for prosecutor's to obtain convictions.
Chapter 292, Statutes of 2008

AB 1582 (Charles Calderon-D) Marijuana: possession: penalty
Provides that, except as authorized by law, every person who possesses not more than 28.5 grams of marijuana, other than concentrated cannabis, is, for the first offense, guilty of an infraction, and is, for the second or any subsequent offense, guilty of an infraction or a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $250.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1627 (Sharon Runner-R) Solicitation: controlled substance offenses
Provides that every person who has been convicted of soliciting another to commit specified controlled substance offenses and who is subsequently convicted of the proscribed solicitation, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1826 (Beall-D) Drug forfeiture laws
Clarifies the filing fee for claims to property worth more than $5,000 seized as a result of drug forfeiture laws.
Chapter 214, Statutes of 2008

AB 1961 (Swanson-D) Nonviolent drug offenses
Requires a court to dismiss specified non-violent, non-sales drug convictions under certain conditions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2279 (Leno-D) Medical marijuana: qualified patients and primary caregivers
Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of a person's status as a qualified patient (medical marijuana user), or on the basis of the person's positive drug test for marijuana, provided the person is a qualified patient and the medical use of marijuana does not occur at the place of employment or during hours of employment, with specified exceptions. Creates, for a person who has suffered discrimination as described above, a civil action for damages, injunctive relief, and any other appropriate equitable relief to protect the peaceable exercise of the right or rights secured.
Vetoed

AB 2743 (Saldana-D) Medical marijuana: nonassistance with federal raids
Declares that it is the policy of the State of California, that its agencies, agents and city, counties and other state or local government entities shall not assist in federal raids, arrests, investigations or prosecutions for marijuana-related offenses if the target is a qualified patient, a designated caregiver, or other person acting in accordance with state medical marijuana laws.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACR 9 (Dymally-D) Legislative Task Force on Substance Abuse
Establishes, until 11/30/08, the Legislative Task Force on Substance Abuse, and requires the Task Force to report findings and recommendations on specified issues to the Governor and Legislature no later than 9/30/08.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses

SB 177 (Migden-D) DUI: ignition interlock
Revises and recasts suspension revocation and restrictions provisions dealing with driving under the influence, including, but not limited to, increasing the periods of suspensions or revocations and imposing ignition interlock device requirements on a person whose license is suspended or revoked or applies for and receives a restricted driver's license.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 432 (Lowenthal-D) Omnibus clean-up bill
Enacts the 2007 omnibus bill of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, incorporating various technical statutory changes that are noncontroversial.
Vetoed

SB 476 (Hollingsworth-R) Vehicle: manslaughter
Provides that prosecution of voluntary manslaughter, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated or a violation felony vehicular manslaughter under Penal Code Section 192(c)(3) shall be commenced within 10 years of the offense.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 492 (Maldonado-R) Vehicle abandonment
Increases the minimum base fine for abandoning a vehicle from $100 to $1,000.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 498 (Oropeza-D) Saltwater-damaged vehicles
Prohibits a person who determines a vehicle to be a total loss salvage, due to salt water damage, from selling, or otherwise transferring, the vehicle to any person or entity in California. Prohibits a person or entity from knowingly buying, selling, consigning, or otherwise transferring vehicles salvaged due to saltwater damage, except to a licensed dismantler to be destroyed.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

SB 848 (Corbett-D) Vehicle speed traps
Excludes from the definition of the term "speed trap" instances when an arresting officer is able to demonstrate that the driver's speed exceeded the prima facie speed limit by at least 15 miles per hour and the speed is greater than is reasonable and prudent having due regard for certain highway factors, or at a speed that endangers the safety of persons or property.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 889 (Maldonado-R) Vehicles
Requires the Department of Transportation to establish, until 1/1/11, the Carpool Education Pilot Program to educate the public on the proper use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes and ramps and to encourage the reporting of alleged violations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1190 (Oropeza-D) Ignition interlock devices
Reduces, from 0.20 percent to 0.15 percent, the blood alcohol level which triggers heightened consideration by the court to order installation of an ignition interlock device. Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to study the effectiveness of ignition interlock devices and report their findings to the Legislature.
Chapter 392, Statutes of 2008

SB 1325 (Kuehl-D) Vehicles: automated speed enforcement
Allows Beverly Hills to use an automated speed enforcement system, as specified.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

SB 1361 (Correa-D) Ignition interlock devices
Allows a DUI offender to get a restricted license sooner if he/she installs an ignition interlock device.
Vetoed

SB 1388 (Torlakson-D) Ignition interlock devices
Changes the mandate which requires the installation of an ignition interlock device when a person has been convicted of driving on a suspended license that was suspended because of driving under the influence from a court-imposed sanction to an administrative sanction and to set up the administration of the regulation of ignition interlock devices to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Chapter 404, Statutes of 2008

SB 1394 (Lowenthal-D) Lapses of consciousness: reports by physicians
Refines, beginning 1/1/10, the circumstances under which a physician is required to report a patient who has suffered a lapse of consciousness to the Department of Motor Vehicles for a reexamination.
Vetoed

SB 1567 (Oropeza-D) Windshield: global positioning systems
Allows a Global Positioning System device to be affixed to a vehicle's windshield in specified locations.
Chapter 413, Statutes of 2008

SB 1751 (Runner-R) Vehicles: theft
Requires a person convicted of vehicle theft to have his license restricted, suspended or revoked for a specified period of time.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 24 (Richardson-D) Vehicles: police pursuit
Requires that high school driver education classes include a component regarding the consequences of using a motor vehicle to evade a peace officer, including the frequency and likelihood of injuries and fatalities to the driver, other drivers, peace officers, and innocent bystanders.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 60 (Nava-D) Vehicles: bicycles
Requires the driver of a motor vehicle overtaking a bicycle that is proceeding in the same direction to pass to the left at a safe distance, at a minimum clearance of three feet, without interfering with the safe operation of the overtaken bicycle.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 226 (Huff-R) Vehicles: removal
Allows a peace officer to remove a vehicle if he/she issues a notice of reexamination to a driver and there is no other person readily available to operate the vehicle.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 247 (Gaines-R) Minors: fitness hearing: vehicular manslaughter
Expands the list of crimes for which a minor, 14 years of age or older, may be tried in adult court to include specified vehicular manslaughter offenses.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 248 (Gaines-R) Vehicles: violations: punishment
Clarifies that existing law that lists a violation in existing law related to a motor vehicle speed contest as a misdemeanor, the violation is punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. Provides the same with respect to a violation related to reckless driving that is punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 303 (Spitzer-R) Manslaughter: vehicular
Increases the penalty for vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated from a wobbler, punishable by up to one year in county jail or by 16 months, two or four years in state prison, to a straight felony, punishable by 16 months, two or four years in state prison.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 425 (Adams-R) Motorcycles: helmets
Exempts from the motorcycle helmet law any rider or driver who is 18 years of age or older and has either completed a motorcycle rider training program that meets the standards of the Department of the California Highway Patrol or has been issued a class M1 license or endorsement, or a comparable license from another jurisdiction, for two years or more.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 602 (DeVore-R) Parking violations: hearings
Requires any contract between a local government and a private entity for the processing of notices of parking violations and notices of delinquent parking violations be based on either a fixed monthly rate or on the number of notices processed.
Chapter 13, Statutes of 2008

AB 605 (Walters-R) Speed contest: forfeiture of vehicle
Extends existing law for impounding a vehicle involved in a speed contest held on a city street to persons engaged in reckless driving on a highway, reckless driving in an offstreet parking facility, or an exhibition of speed on a highway.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 893 (Walters-R) Vehicles: speeding
Makes it an infraction to drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed of 100 miles per hour or more, and requires a minimum fine of $300 to be imposed upon any conviction of that offense. Requires, rather than authorizes, upon a first conviction, the court to suspend the person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle for 30 days.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 996 (Spitzer-R) Department of Motor Vehicles: records
Addresses some of the issues regarding the collection of traffic, parking or toll violations from people who have special Department of Motor Vehicles confidentiality by clarifying that governmental agencies who collect for these violations get the information, by specifying that service time frames are tolled in those circumstances. Double-jointed with AB 2039 (Arambula-D), Chapter 91, Statutes of 2008.
Vetoed

AB 1069 (Cook-R) Abandoned property: vehicles and mobilehomes
Adds mobilehomes to the abandoned vehicle abatement program.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)

AB 1099 (Portantino-D) Traffic violator schools
Makes several changes to traffic violator school licensing, methods and duration of instruction, Department of Motor Vehicle fees, and course completion certificates.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1198 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: driving under the influence: penalties
Adds a new criminal fine of $350 to any penalties imposed pursuant to state or local laws or regulations on persons convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1200 (Saldana-D) Vehicles: hit-and-run: multiple convictions: penalties
Increases the penalties for hit-and-run with injury, serious bodily injury, or death, if a person has two or more prior convictions within 10 years, or specified prior convictions relating to the unsafe operation of a motor vehicle.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1215 (Benoit-R) Vehicles: DUI
Prohibits a person who has a measurable amount of specified controlled substance(s) in his/her blood from driving a vehicle.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1385 (Garrick-R) Vehicles: DUI: penalties
Increases, from an infraction (punishable by a fine of up to $250) to a misdemeanor (punishable by up to six months in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000), the penalty for operating a motorized scooter while under the influence.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1416 (Sharon Runner-R) Child endangerment: driving under the influence
Provides that any person who operates a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and a child is a passenger in that vehicle at the time of the offense is guilty of child endangerment, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 90 days nor more than one year in a county jail, or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, four, or six years.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1487 (Berryhill-R) Vehicles: driving under the influence
Reduces the blood alcohol content required for referral to a licensed driving under the influence program, as specified, from less than 0.20% to less than 0.15% for a three-month class, and from more than 0.20% to more than 0.15% for a nine-month class.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1724 (Jones-D) Vehicles: impoundment: illegal dumping
Authorizes local entities to enact ordinances authorizing the impoundment of a vehicle used to dump commercial quantities of waste (involving at least a cubic yard of waste) if the person whose vehicle is impounded has a prior conviction for illegal dumping, and requires any local ordinance adopted pursuant to this bill includes specified innocent owner and community property owner protections.
Vetoed

AB 1751 (Fuentes-D) Vehicles: nuisance abatement: impoundment
Authorizes cities or counties to adopt local ordinances declaring a motor vehicle to be a public nuisance subject to impoundment for not more than 30 days upon a valid arrest of a person who uses the vehicle in the commission or attempted commission of specified prostitution crimes and has one prior conviction for a specified prostitution crime.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1882 (Garrick-R) DUI: illegal aliens
Requires an arresting agency to notify the appropriate federal agency if the arresting agency has reason to believe a person arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs is an illegal alien.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1900 (Nava-D) Penalty assessments: Santa Barbara Trauma Center
Extends the sunset date relative to the penalty assessment in Santa Barbara County to be used for trauma care and to change the existing one so that it does not apply to all Vehicle code violations but just specified DUI violations as well as criminal offenses.
Chapter 323, Statutes of 2008

AB 2022 (Fuentes-D) Driving without a license
Requires a court to grant a defense motion for a 90-day continuance to allow a defendant who has a revoked or suspended license to obtain a valid driver's license.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2039 (Arambula-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: records
Provides that under Section 1808.4 of the Vehicle Code, following termination of office or employment, a confidential home address shall be withheld from public inspection for three years, unless the termination is the result of conviction of a criminal offense.
Chapter 91, Statutes of 2008

AB 2042 (Fuentes-D) Vehicles: removal
Allows a peace officer to remove and impound a vehicle when citing a person for acting as an unlicensed vehicle dealer.
Chapter 736, Statutes of 2008

AB 2073 (Benoit-R) DUI related offenses: motor vehicles and vessels
Conforms penalty enhancement provisions for boating under the influence with existing provisions for driving under the influence.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2401 (Karnette-D) Delinquent parking citations
Provides that the new owner of a vehicle is not responsible for parking citations issued prior to when he/she acquired ownership of the vehicle.
Chapter 741, Statutes of 2008

AB 2419 (Huff-R) DUI: noncitizens.
Requires the arresting agency to make specified notification whenever a peace officer has reason to believe that any person arrested for a specified driving under the influence offense may not be a citizen of the United States.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2669 (Krekorian-D) Speeding: violation point counts
Adds, in addition to the violation point count assigned to ones drivers license for an incident, one point if the driver was driving 26 or more miles per hour over the maximum, prima facie, or posted speed limit, except on a freeway or expressway.
Vetoed

AB 2766 (Fuentes-D) Driving under the influence: administrative hearing
Extends, for 45 days, the time frame to request a hearing to contest an order of suspension or revocation relative to a driving under the influence violation.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2798 (Walters-R) Vehicles: speeding
Makes it an infraction or a misdemeanor to drive a vehicle upon a highway at a speed of 100 miles per hour or more, and requires a minimum fine of $300 to be imposed upon any conviction of that offense. Requires, upon a first conviction, the court to suspend the person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle for 90 days, unless the court determines extreme hardship, or other good cause exists to reduce or waive the suspension.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 2802 (Houston-R) Vehicles: alcohol-related reckless driving
Requires a defendant convicted of reckless driving when alcohol or drug-related (wet reckless) who has a prior alcohol-related driving conviction within 10 years to attend a nine-month driving driver treatment program.
Chapter 103, Statutes of 2008

AB 2884* (Portantino-D) Motor vehicle operation: TV broadcast
Permits a person to drive a motor vehicle if a video screen displaying a video signal or television broadcast is at any point forward of the back of the driver's seat, provided that the video equipment is designed, operated and configured to prevent the driver from viewing the broadcast or video signal while operating the vehicle in a safe and reasonable manner.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 2951 (Eng-D) Vehicles: speed contests: forfeiture of vehicle
Authorizes a local authority to adopt an ordinance that subjects a vehicle to forfeiture as a nuisance when a person is convicted of engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest or an exhibition of speed on a highway, pursuant to current law (VC 2309(a) or (c)), and the person is the registered owner of the vehicle at the time of impoundment and has a previous felony conviction for engaging in a speed contest that resulted in injury, pursuant to current law (VC 2
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 3076* (Huffman-D) Vehicles: Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund
Corrects a drafting error in SB 1773 (Alarcon), Chapter 841, Statutes of 2006, relative to the distribution of penalty assessments that a county may elect to impose on criminal violations for the purpose of supporting emergency medical services.
Chapter 511, Statutes of 2008

Other Crimes and Sentencing

SB 3 (Harman-R) Trespass: illegal immigrants
Makes it unlawful for any person who is a citizen of any country other than the United States to enter or occupy any public or private land in this state if at the time of the commission of an offense, the person is in violation of federal law for illegally entering the United States.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 110 (Romero-D) Sentencing commission
Creates and specifies the membership of the California Sentencing Commission to implement a new sentencing system in California.
(Died on Assembly Floor)
A similar bill was AB 160 (Lieber-D) which died on Senate Inactive File.

SB 122 (Steinberg-D) Hate crimes: homelessness
Includes "homeless status" in the definition of "hate crime."
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 129 (Kuehl-D) Criminal communications
Expands the scope of the current crime of making two or more phone calls or electronic communications with the intent to annoy. Prohibits making two or more such communications regardless of where the communication is received. Increases the penalty from six months in county jail to one year in county jail in all cases where the intended recipient had a specified prior relationship with the defendant or where a court order is in place prohibiting such communications.
Chapter 109, Statutes of 2008

SB 331* (Romero-D) Trespass on tribal lands
Provides that specified forms of trespass on tribal lands are infractions, with a maximum penalty of $250 (plus penalty assessments) for a first violation and a maximum of $500 (plus penalty assessments) for a second or subsequent violation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 368 (Harman-R) Distribution of child pornography on the Internet
Provides, for purposes of existing obscenity and child pornography laws, that the term "to distribute" includes "making available for access or possession over the Internet."
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 476 (Hollingsworth-R) Voluntary manslaughter
Extends the statute of limitations for all types of manslaughter to 10 years.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 477 (Hollingsworth-R) Burglary: intent to commit assault
Defines the entry into a residence with the intent to commit an assault as a felony, punishable by imprisonment for two, four, or six years.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 514 (Dutton-R) Sexual contact: murder
Provides that a person who is found to have engaged in sexual contact with, or sexual penetration of, as defined, a person whom he or she has intentionally killed, or a person who intentionally aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces, solicits, requests, or assists another person to do so, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole. States that its provisions do not preclude a penalty of death, if otherwise applicable.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 550 (Ashburn-R) Gangs: safe school zones
Provides that a defendant convicted of participation in a street gang, or a felony for which a gang-enhancement was imposed, shall receive an additional sentence enhancement of one year, if the crime occurred within 1,000 feet of a school or park.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 571 (Yee-D) Organized retail crime
Requires the California Research Bureau of the California State Library, by 9/30/08, to report to the Legislature on the economic losses caused by organized retail crime. Makes legislative declarations and findings regarding the problems caused by organized retail crime, and states the Legislature's intent to define the crime and provide law enforcement with the necessary tools to investigate and prosecute the crime.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 612 (Simitian-D) Crime
Provides that the venue for trial of an identity theft crime includes the county in which the victim resides.
Chapter 47, Statutes of 2008

SB 653 (Calderon-D) False or misleading information: penalties
Makes it a felony, punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for 16 months or two or three years, for every person who acts under color of law and who knowingly, or with reckless disregard for the truth, provides, distributes, produces, disseminates, sponsors, authorizes, or finances the provision, distribution, or dissemination of any false or misleading information regarding either the time, place, or manner of any election, or the qualifications for, or restrictions on, voter eligibility for any election.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 712 (Cogdill-R) Theft detection shielding devices
Defines new crimes concerning defeating or avoiding theft detection devices at retail shops, punishable as misdemeanors for the first offense and felonies for subsequent offenses.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 787 (Battin-R) Crimes: computers
Prohibits the uses of automated software to circumvent, defeat, etc., a computer program designed to validate proper transaction flow and access the goods or services by legitimate computer users.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 804 (Hollingsworth-R) Business establishments: unlawful entry
Defines a new form of misdemeanor trespass that will be committed where the defendant enters, or remains, in a place of business open to the public after previously having interfered with the business, at which time the person was asked to leave and issued a written warning or request directing him or her not to return for six months.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 844 (Calderon-D) Crime: school zones
Enhances the law concerning safe school zones.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 864 (Battin-R) Gaming: charitable bingo: penalties
Provides that the use of an electronic device for bingo in violation of existing statutory guidelines, or the act of providing an electronic device to anyone if it is reasonably foreseeable that the device will be used to violate those guidelines, is punishable by a civil penalty of not less than $10,000 per machine. Provides the violation to be prosecuted in a civil action that may be brought by a prosecutor or a private party, as specified. Provides that a private party bringing the action may act for the interests of itself, its members, or the general public, and if the private party prevails, the court may, upon motion, award attorney's fees and costs. Requires the court to order the appropriate law enforcement agency with jurisdiction to seize and destroy electronic devices that are in violation.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

SB 989 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Criminal street gangs
Provides that a specified "hate crime" qualifies as a crime that can establish the "primary activities" of a gang and a "pattern of gang activity."
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 999 (Yee-D) Crime
Eliminates the life without parole sentence, making the sentence for first degree murder with special circumstances by a defendant under 18 years of age, 25 to life.
(Died on Senate Floor)

SB 1116 (Alquist-D) High Technology Crime Advisory Committee
Amends and recasts the list of members of the California High Technology Crime Advisory Committee and also adds a representative of the State Chief Information Officer to the Committee.
Chapter 112, Statutes of 2008

SB 1126* (Cedillo-D) Criminal street gangs: nuisances: damages
Authorizes the Attorney General, district attorney or prosecuting city attorney to collect assets from a criminal street gang or individual members who knew or should have known of the unlawful act in order to satisfy a money damages award in a nuisance abatement action, as specified; and, states only members of the criminal street gang who created, maintained or contributed to the creation or maintenance of the nuisance are personally liable for the money damages.
Chapter 38, Statutes of 2008

SB 1130 (Battin-R) Registration of arsonists
Provides that information about persons required to register with law enforcement for an arson conviction shall be available to the public through an Internet web site.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1140 (Steinberg-D) Financial abuse of elder or dependent adults
Adds the taking or appropriation of property by undue influence to the definition of financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult. Creates a presumption that a person has taken or appropriated property of an elder or dependent adult for a wrongful use, if the person knew or should have known that his/her conduct is likely to be harmful to the elder or dependent adult. Creates a new cause of action for financial abuse against a person who takes the property of an elder or dependent adult who lacks capacity and then refuses to return the property after a demand for return of the property was made by the elder or dependent adult. Establishes that the statute of limitations for the filing of an Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act financial abuse action, including the new cause of action for property taken from an elder or dependent adult who lacks capacity, is four years from the date the plaintiff discovers, or should have discovered, the facts constituting the financial abuse. Clarifies that in an action under the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act, the court shall award attorney's fees and costs in addition to compensatory damages and all other remedies otherwise provided by law.
Chapter 475, Statutes of 2008

SB 1232 (Battin-R) Crimes: computers
Creates or defines a new crime that is committed where one "knowingly and without permission uses automated computer software to circumvent, defeat, defraud, or deceive a computer program that is designed to sell tickets to entertainment event to the public."
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1236 (Padilla-D) Fines and forfeitures
Extends the sunset on provisions relative to the penalty assessment that a county may elect to impose on all criminal violations for the purpose of supporting emergency medical services.
Chapter 60, Statutes of 2008

SB 1241 (Margett-R) Public safety omnibus bill
Makes technical and corrective changes to various code sections relating, generally, to criminal justice laws, as specified.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2008

SB 1259 (Margett-R) Crimes against elders and dependent adults
Adds theft by exploitation and theft by undue influence to existing elder abuse statutes and creates an enhancement for prior elder abuse convictions.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1305 (Battin-R) Murder: special circumstances: victims under 14 years of age
Makes the intentional murder of a child under the age of 14 a death penalty offense.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1342* (Cogdill-R) Sentencing
Makes permanent amendments to California's sentencing statutes which allow courts to impose the upper, middle, or lower prison term, at the court's discretion.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1344 (Battin-R) Sentence enhancements: kidnapping
Creates a new sentencing enhancement to impose an additional year of imprisonment for every day a victim is confined in a kidnapping, kidnapping for ransom posing as a kidnapper for purposes of extortion, false imprisonment, or human trafficking crime.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1509 (Lowenthal-D) Assault and battery: Department of Transportation workers
Enacts new misdemeanor assault and battery crimes applicable where the victim is a Department of Transportation employee or contractor, as specified.
Chapter 410, Statutes of 2008

SB 1554 (Dutton-R) Burglary tools: bump keys
Defines a bump key as a burglary tool within the meaning of Section 466 of the Penal Code.
Chapter 119, Statutes of 2008

SB 1666 (Calderon-D) Crimes committed in school zones
Expands the area of a safe school zone from 1,000 to 1,500 feet from a school, and provides that existing school disruption and related crimes apply to proscribed conduct on or around a private school.
Chapter 726, Statutes of 2008

SB 1701 (Romero-D) Sentencing
Extends the sunset provision for two years on amendments to California Determinate Sentencing Law which allows courts to impose the upper, middle or lower prison term, at the courts discretion.
Chapter 416, Statutes of 2008

SB 1770 (Padilla-D) Anti-reproductive-rights crime
Extends the sunset on the Reproductive Rights Law Enforcement Act from 1/1/09 to 1/1/14. Requires the Advisory Committee responsible for reporting on the implementation of, and the effectiveness of, the Attorney General plan for Reproductive Rights Law Enforcement Act to submit a second report to the Legislature by 12/31/11. Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training distribute training bulletins to law enforcement agencies on this topic, as specified.
Chapter 206, Statutes of 2008

SB 1775 (Calderon-D) Dogfighting: forfeitures
Provides for the forfeiture on any property interest that was either acquired through the commission of dogfighting or used to facilitate dogfighting.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SCR 106 (Romero-D) Denim Day
Recognizes 4/23/08 as Denim Day California and encourages everyone to wear jeans on that day to help communicate the message that there is no excuse for, and never an invitation to, rape.
Resolution Chapter 31, Statutes of 2008

SJR 12 (Simitian-D) Elder abuse awareness stamp
Requests the President and Congress of the United States to afford the public a convenient way to contribute towards the funding of elder abuse prevention and awareness programs by authorizing the United States Postmaster General to establish a special rate of postage for first-class mail, and to issue a special postage stamp regarding elder abuse prevention and awareness.
Resolution Chapter 5, Statutes of 2008

AB 36 (Niello-R) Public employees' retirement: fraud
Makes it a crime for a person to make or present false material statements and representations in connection with those retirement systems' benefits and applications, as specified, or to aid or abet someone in this regard. Makes it a crime for a person to knowingly accept, with the intent to keep for personal benefit, a payment from any of those retirement systems with the knowledge that one was not entitled to the benefit.
(Died in Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee)

AB 42 (Sharon Runner-R) Grand theft: subsidized housing
Makes the defrauding of a government subsidized housing program felony grand theft, punishable by 16 months, two or three years in the state prison regardless of the amount of the loss.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 58 (Soto-D) Shock pens
Prohibits the possession by, and sale to, a minor of a shock pen. A first-time offense for the possession of a shock pen by a minor will be punishable by community service. Provides that the sale of a shock pen to a minor, or a second or subsequent possession offense by a minor, will be an infraction punishable by a $100 fine.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 160 (Lieber-D) California Sentencing Commission
Establishes the California Sentencing Commission with prescribed duties relative to devising sentencing guidelines, and sets forth a 21-person membership of the Commission.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
A similar bill was SB 110 (Romero-D) which died on Senate Inactive File.

AB 228 (Strickland-R) Battery
Makes battery committed by any person in custody against another person in custody a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in the county jail.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 235 (Tran-R) Statute of limitations: child pornography
Provides that the statute of limitations for employing a minor in the commercial preparation or distribution of child pornography shall be set at 10 years from the time production of the material was, or reasonably could have been, discovered. Provides that the statute of limitations for surreptitious taping of another, as specified, shall be set at one year after the crime was, or reasonably could have been, discovered.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 279 (Huff-R) Unlawful demonstrations: military funerals
Makes it an infraction for a person to disrupt a funeral service for a member, or former member, of the Armed Forces, and imposes a $250 fine in addition to any other penalty provided by law.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 303 (Spitzer-R) Manslaughter: vehicles
Increases the penalty for vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated from a wobbler, punishable by up to one year in a county jail or by 16 months, two or four years in a state prison, to a straight felony, punishable by 16 months, two or four years in state a prison.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 378 (Benoit-R) Elder and dependent adult abuse
Makes a subsequent conviction of theft, embezzlement, forgery, or fraud, regardless of value, by a caretaker against an elderly or dependant adult punishable by two, three, or four years in state prison or by a county jail term of up to one year.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 395 (Swanson-D) Child abduction
Provides penalties for a person who maliciously takes or entices away a child where the abduction continues for more than one year. Punishes such a violation where a person does not have a right to custody and maliciously acts with the intent to detain or conceal the child from a lawful custodian, by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, a fine not exceeding $1,000, or both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in a state prison for four, six, or nine years, a fine not exceeding $10,000, or both that fine and imprisonment. Punishes a violation where a person maliciously deprives a lawful custodian of custody or visitation by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, a fine not exceeding $1,000, or both that fine and imprisonment, or by imprisonment in a state prison for two, four, or six years, a fine not exceeding $10,000, or both that fine and imprisonment.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 426 (Galgiani-D) Serious and violent felonies
Adds solicitation of murder and human trafficking to the list of "serious felonies." Adds solicitation of murder to the list of "violent" felonies.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 476 (De La Torre-D) Crimes: fireworks law
Increases the fines for violating state fireworks laws from $1,000 to not less than $2,000 and not more than $5,000, and authorizes the impounding of vehicles used to transport "dangerous fireworks" by the State Fire Marshal.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 565 (Berryhill-R) Arson: registration
Increases the failure to register as a convicted arsonist from a misdemeanor to a felony.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 667 (Smyth-R) Law enforcement animals
Increases the penalties for willfully and maliciously injuring a horse or dog used by a police officer in the line of duty to imprisonment in the state prison from 3, 5, or 7 years, or in a county jail not exceeding 1 year, or by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both a fine and imprisonment.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 676 (Tran-R) Serious felonies: penalty enhancement
Creates a penalty enhancement for convictions against any inmate who commits a felony for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a criminal street gang.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 732 (DeVore-R) Crimes: punishment
Provides that where the crime of battery is a first offense, it may be charged as an infraction or a misdemeanor. Increases the maximum fine for the misdemeanor from $2,000 to $3,000, and sets the maximum fine for the infraction at $1,000. Increases the maximum fine from $2,000 to $3,000 for a misdemeanor battery against specified persons.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 777 (Levine-D) Animal cruelty: elephants
Prohibits specified conduct in relation to housing, possessing, contacting, or traveling with an elephant.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 780 (Silva-R) Attempted murder
Expands the statute relating to attempted murder of a peace officer to include individuals who have powers of arrest and public officers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 787 (Soto-D) Crime: weapons
Expands the list of prohibited weapons to include metal knuckles, clubs or batons, blackjacks, slungshots, billys, sandclubs, saps, sandbags, and instruments that expel a nonmetallic BB or pellet.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 788 (Niello-R) Code enforcement officers: battery
Includes a code enforcement officer within the list of specified positions where battery upon that officer is either a misdemeanor or a felony.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 894 (Nakanishi-R) Criminal street gangs
Authorizes a court to impose a 10-year enhancement for the commission of any "violent felony" perpetrated for the benefit of a criminal street gang if that penalty is longer than a provision related to a minimum parole eligibility date for crimes carrying a life term performed for the benefit of a criminal street gang.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 919 (Houston-R) Electronic communication devices: threats to safety
Makes a person who, with the intent to place another person in reasonable fear for his/her safety, or the safety of the other person's immediate family, by means of an electronic communication device, and without consent of the other person and for the purpose of causing that other person unwanted contact, injury, or harassment by a third party, distributes specified identifying information is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Chapter 583, Statutes of 2008

AB 998 (Garrick-R) Theft: motor vehicle: penalties
Creates six new one-year enhancements for the theft of a vehicle under specified circumstances.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1033 (Caballero-D) Contributing to the delinquency of a minor: gang activity
Provides that any person who commits any act or fails to perform a duty, as specified, that causes, or tends to cause or encourage, a minor to become a member of a gang, or who, by acts or omissions, or by threats, commands or persuasion induces a minor to become a member of a gang, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Provides, relative to contributing to a minor's gang membership, that a parent or legal guardian has a duty to exercise reasonable care, supervision, protection and control over his/her minor child.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1035 (La Malfa-R) Crime
Makes it a crime, punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both, to enter onto a levee by a motorized vehicle, or by any means, if the entering causes actual damage, including, but not limited to, digging or setting a fire.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1067 (Cook-R) Harmful matter
Requires that any harmful matter displayed in a newsrack to be covered by blinders if the newsrack can be viewed by a minor. Provides that violation of this blinder requirement is an infraction, with specified graduated penalties.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1093 (Sharon Runner-R) Bail: forfeiture
Provides that, if the prosecuting agency elects to seek extradition, the 180-day period after forfeiture of bail has been declared, shall be tolled until the defendant is returned to the jurisdiction of the court that issued the forfeiture, or until the extradition is terminated by the prosecuting agency, provided that the prosecuting agency provides written notice to the surety and bail agent of that termination.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1145 (Huff-R) Graffiti: forfeiture of vehicle
Authorizes vehicle seizure and forfeiture when the owner of the vehicle uses it in connection with the commission of a crime of vandalism, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1171 (Sharon Runner-R) Crimes: Necrophilia
Increases the penalty for sexual contact with, or mutilation or disinterment of, human remains from 16 months, two or three years in state prison, to three, six, or eight years in state prison. Makes this offense a registerable sex offense.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1278 (Lieber-D) Human trafficking
Voids, as a matter of public policy, any contract provision that purports to allow a deduction from a person's wages for the cost of emigrating and transporting that person to the United States. Establishes a procedure where multiple violations of human trafficking involving the same victim or victims but occurring in more than one county could be tried together in one county.
Chapter 258, Statutes of 2008

AB 1372 (Parra-D) Theft: copper
Adds theft of copper materials as a type of theft punishable as grand theft.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1388 (Berryhill-R) Probation
Provides that every person who possesses a bump key, as defined, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1394 (Krekorian-D) Counterfeit: trademarks
Provides that it is a misdemeanor or felony to willfully manufacture, intentionally sell or knowingly possess for sale any counterfeit registered trademark.
Chapter 431, Statutes of 2008

AB 1416 (Sharon Runner-R) Child endangerment: driving under the influence
Provides that any person who operates a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, or drugs, and a child is a passenger in that vehicle at the time of the offense, is guilty of child endangerment, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 90 days nor more than one year in a county jail, or by imprisonment in a state prison for two, four, or six years.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1424 (Davis-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse
Increases the penalty for violating a protective order in an elder or dependent adult abuse case from six months to one year.
Chapter 152, Statutes of 2008

AB 1556 (Horton-R) Crimes: hazardous waste
Provides that every person convicted of a felony involving or resulting in a hazardous waste biproduct shall, within the discretion of the court, be punished by an additional term of one to five years.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1584 (Maze-R) Crime: trespassing
Requires that unenclosed lands must be posted with signs forbidding trespass at intervals not less than one sign to the mile.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1628 (Sharon Runner-R) Vandalism: punishment
Provides that more than one act of vandalism committed in any consecutive 12-month period may be aggregated by determining the dollar amount of the defacement or damage for the purpose of charging an alternate misdemeanor/felony if the vandalism was the result of a common scheme, purpose, or plan.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1629 (Sharon Runner-R) Parole
Punishes any person who commits any felony while on parole and who has served a prior prison term for first- or second-degree murder with a term of life without the possibility of parole.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1631 (Sharon Runner-R) Sentencing: 10-20-life
Authorizes a court to apply an enhancement stemming from the use of a firearm, as specified, to any principle in the commission of the underlying offense regardless of whether he/she personally used a firearm, and deletes existing references to persons who use a firearm for the benefit of a criminal street gang.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1657 (Sharon Runner-R) Underage drinking
Makes it a wobbler to purchase alcohol for, or furnish, give, or give away any alcoholic beverage to, a person the provider knew or reasonably should have known to be under the age of 21 years, and the person under the age of 21 consumes the alcohol and thereby proximately causes great bodily injury or death to himself, herself, or any other person, and the provider should have known of the danger.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1708 (Swanson-D) California Sentencing Commission
Adds new provisions related to the California Sentencing Commission, to become operative only if SB 110 (Romero) is enacted and this bill is enacted last.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1762 (Salas-D) Bail bonds: premiums
Provides that no person who holds a bail license shall execute an undertaking of bail for an arrestee who has been charged with a serious felony unless the full premium due pursuant to the rate filing of the underwriting surety insurer is collected in full, or a 50 percent downpayment is made prior to the release of the arrestee from custody and a written premium payment agreement for the unpaid premium due is entered. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to impose a fine for a first violation, a license suspension for a second violation, or a license revocation for a third violation of this provision.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1765 (Blakeslee-R) Elder abuse: mandated reporters
Requires mandated reporters in elder abuse cases to report the abuse to the local ombudsman, local law enforcement agencies and, in specified cases, to adult protective services.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1766 (Blakeslee-R) Human smuggling
Creates a misdemeanor for a person who intentionally assists another person to enter or travel through California from a foreign nation under circumstances likely to produce great bodily injury or death to the other person even if great bodily injury or death does not result.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1852 (Jeffries-R) Sports betting pools
Changes the penalty for participation in a "sports betting pool," as specified, from a misdemeanor to an infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed $250.
Vetoed

AB 1859* (Adams-R) Theft: fire hydrant parts
Enacts a new section in the Penal Code to provide that any person who buys or receives, for purposes of salvage, any part of a fire hydrant or fire department connection that has been stolen, knowing the property to be so stolen, shall be subject to a criminal fine of not more than $3,000.
Chapter 659, Statutes of 2008

AB 1969 (Plescia-R) Crimes against police dogs or horses
Increases the penalty to three, four, or five years in the state prison for any person who, with the intent to cause injury or death, personally causes the death of a horse or dog being used by, or under the supervision of, a peace officer.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1976 (Benoit-R) Crimes: emergency telephone system: abuse
Increases the penalties for making a non-emergency 911 call.
Chapter 89, Statutes of 2008

AB 1994* (Gaines-R) Economic crimes: sentencing
Reinstates provisions of the Economic Crime Act of 1992 which expired on 1/1/08.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1995 (Jeffries-R) Arson: aggravated: punishment
Increases the amount of damage for a person found guilty of aggravated arson from $5,650,000 to $6,500,000 to account for inflation since 2004. Extends the repeal date for the provisions relating to property damage to 1/1/14, and makes conforming changes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2098 (Krekorian-D) Animals: nonambulatory: cruelty
Makes it a misdemeanor to buy, sell, process or butcher, meat or products of a nonambulatory animal for human consumption and to provide for proper handling of a nonambulatory animal, as specified.
Chapter 194, Statutes of 2008

AB 2100 (Wolk-D) Elder abuse: reporting
Requires the local ombudsperson or local law enforcement agency to whom a case of abuse against an elder or dependent adult has been reported, in addition to existing reporting requirements, to report all cases of known or suspected physical abuse and financial abuse to the local district attorney's office in the county where the abuse occurred.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2008

AB 2104 (Smyth-R) Pornography: unauthorized photographs of minors
Creates a misdemeanor for any person 21 years of age or older to knowingly prepare, post, or publish a photograph or image of a minor on an Internet web site containing obscene matter.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2105 (DeSaulnier-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse
Adds, beginning 7/1/09, licensees under the California Finance Lenders Law and California Residential Mortgage Lending Act, and their employees, to the list of those who are mandated reporters of suspected financial abuse of elder and dependent adults, and adds financial elder and dependent adult abuse signs and reporting requirements to the electives offered to real estate licensees as part of their required continuing education requirements for licensure.
Vetoed

AB 2155 (Garcia-R) Trespass: Indian gaming facilities
Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000, to enter upon any gaming facility owned and operated by a federally recognized Indian tribe, after receiving specified notice or signing a specified request. Specifies that before the person may be served with a notice forbidding trespass, he or she must have interfered with lawful business or occupation carried on by the owner or agent of the gaming facility by obstructing or intimidating those therein.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2166 (Tran-R) Bail forfeiture: appeals
Clarifies the appellate procedure for appeals from orders of the superior courts on motions to vacate bail forfeitures.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2170 (Cook-R) Fireworks
Makes it a misdemeanor to possess, manufacture, sell, use, or discharge, or to offer to do so, any type of fireworks, including safe and sane fireworks, in any high or very high fire hazard severity zone, as designated by the Director of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Provides that any violation of this provision involving the possession of dangerous fireworks in excess of specified amounts will be subject to punishment as a felony.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2172 (Cook-R) Elder abuse: registry
Requires the Department of Justice to develop an Internet web site, to be updated regularly, which makes available to the public certain information about persons convicted of violating at least one crime against an elder or dependent adult, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2262 (Torrico-D) Child protection: safe surrender of newborns
Extends the period during which a person may safely surrender a baby at designated sites as long as the proper procedures under the Safety Surrendered Baby Law are followed.
Vetoed

AB 2281 (Nava-D) Crime: dog fighting
Increases the penalty, from a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000, to a wobbler, punishable by up to one year in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000, or 16 months, two, or three years in state prison, for being present as a spectator at a dog fight.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2296* (Mullin-D) Crimes: academic research
Creates a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in the county jail for any person who publishes information describing, depicting, or location where an academic researcher or his/her immediate family member, with the intent that another person imminently use the information to commit a crime involving violence or threat of violence against an academic researcher or his/her immediate family member.
Chapter 492, Statutes of 2008

AB 2306 (Karnette-D) Battering: writ of habeas corpus
Extends, to 1/1/20, the sunset on the provisions allowing a writ of habeas corpus to be brought where battered women's syndrome was not admitted at trial but would have been relevant if it had been admitted.
Chapter 146, Statutes of 2008

AB 2329 (Garcia-R) Crimes: vandalism
Makes it mandatory, instead of discretionary, for a court to order a defendant convicted of vandalism to perform community service not to exceed 300 hours during a maximum period of 240 non-school and non-employment days as a condition of probation.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2355 (Aghazarian-R) Criminal threats: public officials
Removes the requirement that the crime of threatening an elected official or other specified persons, causes the target of that threat to reasonably fear for his/her safety or the safety of his/her immediate family.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2417 (Sharon Runner-R) Crime
Enacts the Safe Neighborhoods Act: Protect Victims, Stop Gang and Street Crime. States findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to crime in California.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2418 (Huff-R) Bail
Prohibits persons charged with specified violent or gang-related felonies to be eligible for bail or released on his or her own recognizance pending trial, if at the time of the alleged offense, he or she was illegally within the United States.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2523 (Sharon Runner-R) Crime: contact with a minor
Enacts a misdemeanor-infraction that is committed where a stranger who is at least 21 years old communicates with a minor for the purpose of luring the minor from home or another place where the minor is located under circumstances where the adult affirmatively misrepresents his/her age, sex, or criminal purpose.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2562 (Fuller-R) Criminal street gangs: registration
Increases the penalty from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by 16 months, two, or three years in the state prison for failing to register as a member of a criminal street gang under specified circumstances.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2590 (Feuer-D) Firearms: criminal street gangs
Clarifies the definition of "active participant in a criminal street gang" for the purpose of applying enhanced penalties for carrying a concealed or loaded gun, or for illegal transfer of a gun, as specified, and abrogates two California Supreme Court cases.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2606 (Emmerson-R) Bad check diversion program
Increases the fees for district attorney bad check diversion programs.
Chapter 264, Statutes of 2008

AB 2609 (Davis-D) Vandalism: penalties: community service
Emphasizes that the court shall, when appropriate, order a defendant who is granted probation for a graffiti conviction to clean the graffiti or to keep the site free from graffiti.
Chapter 209, Statutes of 2008

AB 2621 (Walters-R) Criminal profiteering: asset forfeiture
Authorizes asset seizure with or without process, as specified, in cases alleging "criminal profiteering activity", as defined.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2668 (DeVore-R) Property crimes
Provides that every person who steals or vandalizes, as specified, fire safety equipment is guilty of a felony, punishable by 16 months, two or three years in the state prison.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2682 (Houston-R) Electronic communication devices: threats to safety
Makes a person who, with the intent to place another person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, or the safety of the other person's immediate family, by means of an electronic communication device, and without consent of the other person, and for the purpose of causing that other person unwanted contact, injury, or harassment by a third party, distributes specified identifying information, guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2724 (Benoit-R) Metal theft: local fines
Requires anyone convicted of grand theft involving the theft of wire, cable, copper, lead, solder, mercury, iron or brass of a kind ordinarily used by, or that ordinarily belongs to a railroad or other transportation, telephone, telegraph, gas, water, or electric light company or county, city, city and county, or other political subdivision of this state engaged in furnishing public utility service, or farm, ranch or industrial facility or other commercial or residential building, to pay a fine of $100 for a first offense and $200 for any subsequent offense, and that any fines collected in this fashion be deposited in the general fund of the jurisdiction that brought the prosecution and used for metal theft enforcement efforts in that jurisdiction. Provides that no penalty assessment will attach to this fine and the court needs to determine the defendant's ability to pay before assessing this fine.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2750 (Krekorian-D) Music and audio-visual privacy: restitution
Provides that in a music or audio-visual piracy case restitution shall be paid to the owner, lawful producer, or trade association acting on behalf of the owner or producer. Provides for the calculation of restitution for music and audio-visual piracy. Provides that restitution includes the reasonable costs incurred by the owner, producer, or trade association acting on behalf of the owner or producer, to investigate the piracy.
Chapter 468, Statutes of 2008

AB 2799 (Saldana-D) Hate crimes
Provides that upon an affirmative vote by the county board of supervisors, a county may establish a hate crimes commission or direct an existing board or committee to fulfill the duties of such commission. Requires a commission or board, directed to perform this duty, to review the incidents of hate crimes within the county and ensure that local law enforcement agencies are responding to hate crimes and reporting these crimes to the Attorney General.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 2810 (Brownley-D) Crimes: human trafficking
Makes specified legislative findings with respect to human trafficking. Requires law enforcement agencies to use due diligence to identify victims of human trafficking, regardless of the persons citizenship, and under specified circumstances, consider whether specified indicators of human trafficking are present. Allows any person who claims to have been forced to commit an act of prostitution because they are a victim of human trafficking to have their name and address kept confidential, under an exception to the Public Records Act.
Chapter 358, Statutes of 2008

AB 2816 (Solorio-D) Crimes: graffiti
Provides that the possession of any broad-tipped marker pen with the intent to commit graffiti is a misdemeanor.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2827 (Sharon Runner-R) Defrauding a public housing agency
Defines housing program fraud in a separate section of the Penal Code, thereby allowing prosecutors and housing authority personnel to better track landlords who have committed housing fraud.
Chapter 105, Statutes of 2008

AB 2937 (Solorio-D) Wrongful convictions and arrests
Creates a number of remedies for a person who has had their judgment vacated.
Vetoed

AB 2943 (Lieber-D) Corporal punishment
Authorizes the finder of fact in a prosecution, when determining whether a defendant willfully caused a child to suffer, pursuant to current law regarding harming a child, to consider specified conditions, though proof of the conduct referenced is not sufficient by itself to prove guilt.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2947 (Eng-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse: waiver of rights
Prohibits a residential care facility for the elderly from requiring, as a condition of admission, that prospective residents waive various legal rights and agree to binding arbitration, including arbitration of violations of the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act.
Vetoed

ACR 108 (Eng-D) Hate Crimes Awareness Month
Designates June 2008 as Hate Crimes Awareness Month to educate community members on the proper reporting of hate crimes and to increase awareness about diversity and tolerance to improve public safety.
Resolution Chapter 73, Statutes of 2008

Procedural

SB 315 (Cogdill-R) Criminal procedure: appeals: capital cases
States that all appellate attorneys who accept appointments for indigent parties must accept appointments for capital appeals regardless of qualifications, and increases the pace of appointment, certification, and filing of capital appeals.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 610 (Corbett-D) Criminal proceedings: commencement
Provides that the prosecution of an offense is commenced when a defendant is arraigned on a complaint that charges the defendant with a felony.
Chapter 110, Statutes of 2008

SB 1343 (Battin-R) Witness testimony: support persons: elder abuse
Adds specified crimes against elder and dependent adults to the list of offenses for which a prosecuting witness, who is an elder or dependent adult, may have up to two support persons during the witness' testimony.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2008

SB 1471 (Runner-R) Criminal procedure: motions
Requires habeas petitions in death penalty cases to be filed within one year. Changes the standards for competent counsel. Provides that habeas petitions in capital cases be filed in superior court.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1566 (Ashburn-R) Criminal procedure: pleas: aliens: advisement
Requires a defendant to bring a motion to vacate a judgment under specified provisions within five years of the date of the plea and specifies findings that a court will be required to make in order to grant this motion to vacate the judgment and permit a change of plea. Provides that the required court advisement does not impose any obligation on defendant's counsel and that the failure of a court to provide the required advisement shall not be used to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel or any other claim of error occurring at the time of the plea. Requires every defendant who enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to sign a document, before or at the time the plea is entered, that contains specified information, and requires the document to be maintained for five years from the date of the plea, unless another law requires a longer period of time. Makes that document, a transcript of the plea, or a minute order memorializing the advisement conclusive proof of the adequacy of the advisement. Requires those materials, to the extent they are available to the superior court file, and specified immigration documents to be attached to a defendant's motion to vacate the judgment.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1589 (Romero-D) Criminal procedure: informants
Provides that a defendant cannot be convicted based on the uncorroborated testimony of an in-custody informant.
Vetoed

SB 1590 (Alquist-D) Interrogation: recording
Requires law enforcement to record all interrogations of individuals in custody for homicide or a violent felony.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 225 (Beall-D) Elder and dependent adults: protective orders
Provides that an elder or dependent adult who petitions for a protective order under the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act is not required to pay a fee for law enforcement to serve an order issued by the court. The statute (Section 15657.03 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) that provides the procedure for obtaining such protective orders, including stay-away and residence exclusion orders, will be repealed as of 1/1/10. Provides that this bill reenacts Section 15657.03 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, effective 1/1/10, in its form of that date, but with the addition of the following provisions: (1) a court will be authorized, upon a showing of good cause, to issue protective orders, including residence-exclusion orders as specified, to protect other named family or household members, or the conservator, of the elder or dependent adult, and (2) no additional proof of service on a respondent will be required for enforcement of a protective order, where the respondent personally appeared in court to hear the existence and substance of the order but was not served personally with the order subsequent to the hearing.
Chapter 480, Statutes of 2008

AB 1133 (Dymally-D) Bail bonds: forfeiture
Provides that where a defendant is surrendered to custody outside the county of prosecution, exoneration of bail shall be conditioned on payment by the bail or surety of the government costs of extradition. Provides that where a bail agent temporarily detains an absconding defendant outside of the jurisdiction of the court and a local law enforcement office executes an affidavit that the detained person is the wanted defendant, the prosecution shall have 60 days to determine whether or not to pursue extradition, with an additional 60 days upon a showing of good cause. Authorizes the bail or surety to move for tolling of the 180-day period before forfeiture of the bond occurs. Sunsets the provisions of this bill as of 1/1/18.
Vetoed

AB 1158 (Benoit-R) Witnesses: conditional examinations
Allows the conditional examination of a witness through a contemporaneous, two-way video conference system if the witness is so sick or infirmed as to be unable to attend the examination in person.
Chapter 14, Statutes of 2008

AB 1210 (Horton-R) Gang-related crimes: hearsay
Deletes from the California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act the requirement that the declarant died from other than natural causes.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1767 (Ma-D) Civil compromise: vandalism
Authorizes the City and County of San Francisco, as a pilot program, to require a person who has committed an act of vandalism by graffiti to complete a minimum of 24 hours of community service if the person engages in a civil compromise.
Chapter 208, Statutes of 2008

AB 2092 (De La Torre-D) Criminal procedure: public office holders
Provides that dismissal of an accusation or information underlying a conviction pursuant to Section 1203.4 of the Penal Code does not permit a person prohibited from holding public office as a result of that conviction to hold public office.
Chapter 94, Statutes of 2008

AB 2228 (Cook-R) Capital cases: witnesses
Authorizes the district attorney and the defendant to introduce conditional examinations of witnesses in all cases, including those where the punishment may be death.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

Juries

AB 1557 (Feuer-D) Jury selection: peremptory challenges
Reduces the number of peremptory challenges available to the prosecution and defense in all misdemeanor criminal trials, punishable by one year or less in the county jail from 10 to six challenges.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1769 (Galgiani-D) Jury service: peace officer exemption
Exempts community college and school district police officers from jury duty in criminal cases.
Vetoed

AB 1828 (Huff-R) Jury exemption: poll workers
Offers a one-year exemption from jury duty for volunteers who worked as a "poll worker" on election day.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1854 (Garrick-R) Grand juries
Authorizes the presiding judge of the San Diego County Superior Court, or the judge appointed by the presiding judge to supervise the grand jury, to impanel one additional grand jury in San Diego County.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

Juvenile Justice

SB 265 (Romero-D) Juvenile justice
Requires the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to explore options for specialized programming for high-risk needs wards outside DJJ. Authorizes DJJ to consider certain changes pertaining to its composition, as specified, and requires DJJ to transfer female wards out of its institutions by 1/1/09.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 390 (Runner-R) Gang Activity Prevention Grant Program
Establishes the Gang Activity Prevention Grant Program, to be administered by the Corrections Standards Authority, for the awarding of grants to juvenile courts, county probation departments and the Division of Juvenile Justice. Funding for the program is subject to appropriation in the Budget Act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1147 (Calderon-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility: juvenile offenders
Requires the Department of Health Care Services to develop procedures to ensure that the Medi-Cal eligibility of minors is not terminated when they are incarcerated.
Chapter 546, Statutes of 2008

SB 1148 (Cedillo-D) Dependent children: emancipation
Requires courts to retain jurisdiction, and counties to provide services to former dependent children who reach the age of majority without housing, health insurance and employment or other financial support.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1250 (Yee-D) Juveniles: communication
Requires at least one individual who is a parent, guardian or designated emergency contact of a person in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Facilities, if the individual can be reasonably located, to be successfully notified within 24 hours of any suicide attempt by the person.
Chapter 522, Statutes of 2008
A similar bill was SB 746 (Yee-D) which died in Senate Public Safety Committee.

SB 1261 (Cox-R) Inmate and ward labor
Consolidates statutory provisions pertaining to the operation of work programs for wards committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities and inmates in adult facilities, as specified, to reflect the reorganization of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency in 2005.
Chapter 116, Statutes of 2008

SB 1545 (Romero-D) Juvenile court schools
Requires the California Department of Education to develop and adopt regulations to implement existing provisions related to the transfer of partial or full course credit completed by a pupil while attending a public school, juvenile court school, or nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency when the pupil transfers to another school.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1638 (Alquist-D) Juvenile court schools
Encourages each county superintendent and the county chief probation officer to enter into a memorandum of understanding, or an equivalent agreement, that supports a process for collaboration, exchanging information, and dispute resolution relating to the delivery of educational services to pupils in juvenile court schools.
Chapter 531, Statutes of 2008

AB 247 (Gaines-R) Minors: fitness hearing: vehicular manslaughter
Expands the list of crimes for which a minor 14 years of age or older may be tried in adult court to include specified vehicular manslaughter offenses.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 312 (Dymally-D) Dependent children: reunification services
Extends the maximum time period during which reunification services may be offered to 24 months, for parents generally. Extends that time period to 36 months for incarcerated parents.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)

AB 360 (Carter-D) Juvenile court law: purpose
Authorizes a county to adopt a restorative justice program to address the needs of minors, victims, and the community. Requires the restorative justice program to be implemented through a restorative justice protocol developed by the juvenile court in conjunction with the prosecutor, public defender, and other interested groups.
Vetoed

AB 407 (Swanson-D) Probation Youth Success Act
Establishes the Probation Youth Success Act and authorizes the Los Angeles County Office of Education and the Alameda County Office of Education to each conduct a three-year pilot project to provide comprehensive, integrated services to selected juvenile ranches, camps, and forestry camps until 1/1/13.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1110 (Parra-D) Dept. of Corrections & Rehab. Division of Juvenile Justice
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Division of Juvenile Justice to conduct a comprehensive study of all newly committed wards within 30 days to assess educational, physical, and mental status, and to determine program and housing needs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1405 (Maze-R) Juvenile law: confidential information
Prohibits, until 1/1/12, any statements, admissions, or confessions made by, or incriminating information obtained from, a minor in the course of any screening or assessment conducted as part of the joint assessment from being admitted into evidence, or used against the minor, in any juvenile, criminal, or civil proceeding, other than a hearing conducted pursuant to the above provisions, or a juvenile dependency proceeding in order to arrange or provide treatment, visitation, or other services for the minor.
Vetoed

AB 1504 (Anderson-R) Dependent child
Provides that a child may come within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and become a dependent child of the court if the child has been a victim of identity theft, as defined, perpetrated by the parent or guardian or a member of his/her household.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1547 (Beall-D) Juvenile court: termination of jurisdiction
Requires the probation department to provide specified services to delinquent youths who are aging-out of the juvenile court system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1655 (Lieber-D) Division of Juvenile Justice
Eliminates the Division of Juvenile Justice, including the Division of Juvenile Facilities, Division of Juvenile Programs, and the Division of Juvenile Programs, as specified, by 1/1/09, unless a later enacted statute enacted before 1/1/09 deletes or extends that date.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1823 (Beall-D) Local juvenile justice coordinating councils
Includes as one of the enumerated members of local juvenile justice coordinating councils the county alcohol and drug program administrator, unless the county alcohol and drug program administrator is already a member of the council by virtue of being represented by another office.
Vetoed

AB 1864 (DeVore-R) Juvenile justice
Reduces the time a person has to claim personal funds or property once he or she leaves the Division of Juvenile Facilities from seven, to three years, thereby conforming the claims period for persons released from Division of Juvenile Facilities to that applicable to persons who have been released from prison.
Chapter 88, Statutes of 2008

AB 2029 (Tran-R) Dependent children: visitation
Allows any relative of a child who is a dependent of the court to petition the court for visitation and specifies the contents of the petition.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2117 (Evans-D) Dependent children: psychotropic medications
Expands the authority of a juvenile court judicial officer to make orders regarding the administration of psychotropic medications to include a dependent child who has been removed from the physical custody of his/her parent or guardian.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2252 (DeSaulnier-D) Youth policy
Establishes a state advisory commission on youth, prescribing its membership and duties.
Vetoed

AB 2289 (Sharon Runner-R) Juvenile: victims' rights
Provides that specified information about wards committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities be provided to victims regardless of commitment offense, as specified.
Chapter 154, Statutes of 2008

AB 2310 (Maze-R) Dependent children
Requires the county welfare department to provide additional information and documents to a person in the foster care system who has reached the age of majority before the juvenile court terminates jurisdiction over the individual.
Chapter 131, Statutes of 2008

AB 2341 (Maze-R) Minors: reunification services
Specifies time periods during which reunification services are provided to children who are dependents of the juvenile court, and their parents or guardians.
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2008

AB 2399 (Portantino-D) Juveniles: independent living program
Requires that services provided to emancipated foster youth under the Independent Living Program be provided to former dependent children of the juvenile court who meet specified requirements.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2408 (Nava-D) Juvenile crime: deferred entry of judgment
Statutorily excludes minors alleged to have committed specified sex offenses from eligibility for deferred entry of judgment, as enacted by Proposition 21 in 2000.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2409 (Nava-D) Juvenile case files: proceedings
Authorizes the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Department of Mental Health, and the district attorney to obtain records of sustained juvenile petitions for specified sex offenses of a person 14 years or older -- child molestation, rape, sodomy, or oral copulation by threat of future retaliation, a felony kidnapping and kidnapping for ransom, and assault with the intent to commit rape, spousal rape, rape with a foreign object, sodomy, child molestation, oral copulation or sexual penetration -- in a sexually violent predator law proceeding.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2483 (Bass-D) Wards and dependent children: programs of supervision
Provides that, if a parent is a dependent of the juvenile court at the time a social worker seeks to undertake a program of supervision for a child, and if counsel has been appointed for the minor parent, the program for supervision shall not be undertaken until the minor parent has consulted with his or her counsel.
Chapter 132, Statutes of 2008

AB 2525 (Galgiani-D) Criminal behavior: preschool attendance
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and its Division of Juvenile Justice to ask whether new inmates and wards attended preschool.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2651* (Aghazarian-R) Child welfare laws
Conforms state child welfare laws to federal law to ensure the continuation of federal compliance and funding.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2008

AB 2748 (Soto-D) Foster care: expanded rights: children
Expands the rights of children in foster care to include fair, equal, and reasonable access to household amenities, as described, not to be arbitrarily excluded from family activities, to be helped in preserving the child's culture and heritage, and to be provided products and services necessary or appropriate to the child's cultural background, race, or ethnicity.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 2927 (Bass-D) Juveniles: dual status children
Requires the county child welfare agency to assess a dual status child for prompt return to the jurisdiction of the dependency court and for services by the county child welfare agency immediately after that child has fulfilled the requirements imposed by the delinquency court.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 3051 (Jones-D) Juveniles: dependent children
Requires the court to inquire whether a minor who is the subject of a dependency proceeding was given an opportunity to attend the hearing.
Chapter 166, Statutes of 2008

Corrections

SB 208 (Runner-R) Correctional treatment center license fees
Exempts county-operated correctional treatment centers from state licensing and inspections fees.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 228* (Denham-R) Decommissioning San Quentin State Prison
Requires the State Prison at San Quentin be decommissioned no later than 12/31/12. Beginning 1/1/12, requires all death-row prisoners be housed and executions carried out at a prison other than San Quentin, and that all other prisoners be moved out of San Quentin by 6/30/12.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 409 (Ashburn-R) Parole
Provides that all records for consideration for the Board of Parole Hearings shall be delivered to the Board at least 60 days prior to any hearing, and that written statements denying parole contain a full and detailed explanation, specific to the prisoner, setting forth the reasons for denying parole.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 547 (Correa-D) Criminal justice facilities: property tax revenues
Requires, for the 2008-09 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, the auditor of a qualified county, as defined, to increase the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue otherwise required to be allocated to that county by the county equity amount, as defined, and to commensurately reduce the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue otherwise required to be allocated to school entities in the county, as specified. Establishes a $20 million limit on the total sum of county equity amounts statewide. Requires that the qualified counties that were allocated the lowest percentage of the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue collected in those counties for the 2002-03 fiscal year first receive as much of their county equity amount as can be satisfied without exceeding the total statewide limit on these amounts, as specified. States the intent of the Legislature that a qualified county dedicate the revenues the county receives under the bill to the construction, operations, and maintenance of new or existing adult criminal justice facilities, juvenile criminal justice facilities, or adult and juvenile criminal justice facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 604 (Cox-R) Prisoners: local cost reimbursements
Requires the State Controller to pay interest on local government claims related to costs incurred in connection with state prisons or prisoners.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 878 (Cox-R) Prison construction costs: mitigation
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to mitigate local impacts of any prison construction project.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 987* (Romero-D) State correctional system
Creates a new Division of Adult Correctional Health Care Service in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and makes additional, largely cleanup, changes to the reorganization of the department from 2005.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1071* (Ducheny-D) Prisons: medical care receiver
Authorizes up to $70 million from $300 million (General Fund) already appropriated in AB 900 (Solorio), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007, for renovation, improvement, or expansion of infrastructure capacity at existing prison facilities, to be used by the federal health care receiver for planning, construction and related capital costs for the improvement or construction of prison health facilities.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

SB 1092* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Prison construction: Medical Care Receiver
Creates an $8 billion Prison Health Care Construction Program to construct 10,000 medical and/or mental health beds, as well as related infrastructure, designed to provide a constitutional level of inmate health care pursuant to the direction of the prison health care receiver appointed by the federal court in 2006.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

SB 1169 (Runner-R) Inmates: health care services
Extends for five years the current 1/1/09 sunset on the statute that provides specified mechanisms and requirements concerning the payment of emergency health care services for local law enforcement patients.
Chapter 142, Statutes of 2008

SB 1265 (Ashburn-R) Board of Parole Hearings
Makes the Board of Parole Hearings a separate entity, with entirely separate staff, from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1266 (Ashburn-R) Board of Parole Hearings: videoconferencing
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct a study on the feasibility of conducting all hearings by the Board of Parole Hearings using a centralized videoconferencing system.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1397 (Negrete McLeod-D) Prison Industry Authority: procurement
Requires the Prison Industry Authority, when procuring raw materials, component parts and goods and services, to comply with certain provisions of law that give preference to small businesses and disabled veteran business enterprises in awarding contracts.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1451 (Ashburn-R) Wardens: Senate confirmation
Restores Senate confirmation of wardens. Provides members of the Senate Rules Committee with otherwise confidential materials developed by the Office of the Inspector General in conjunction with that office's review of gubernatorial warden appointments.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1555 (Kuehl-D) Older prisoners
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to implement an elder identification card program for inmates 55 years of age and older, giving those prisoners priority access to dining halls, the pill line and the commissary and exempting them from lying down during "get down" orders. Requires CDCR to implement an elder work policy, an elder helper program and other age-appropriate programs and activities for elder inmates and permit prisoners to create an Aging Prisoner Subcommittee to communicate issues and concerns of the aging inmate population. Requires the Governor to appoint an ombudsperson with expertise in gerontology to monitor CDCR's progress in meeting the needs of elder prisoners.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1665* (Machado-D) Prison Health Care Construction Program
Enacts the "Prison Health Care Construction Program," including a $6.9 billion revenue bond authorization and a $100 million General Fund appropriation, as specified.
(Failed passage on the Senate Floor)
A similar bill was AB 1189 (Solorio-D) which died on Senate Floor.

SB 1684 (Machado-D) California Rehabilitation Oversight Board: reports
Adjusts the due dates for the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board to file its semi-annual reports from January 15 and July 15 to March 15 and September 15.
Chapter 144, Statutes of 2008

SB 1705* (Runner-R) Correctional facilities
Removes the limitation in existing law relative to the number of beds that are required to be constructed at specified facilities, while maintaining the 12,000 bed maximum. Deletes the word "prison" from the types of facilities that are affected by the bill and replace it with "facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation." Authorizes the Secretary to solicit proposals and enter into contracts for the study, planning, design, development, construction, rebuilding, improvement, repair, or any combination thereof, of facilities specified in the act, through a value-based, competitive negotiation process, and requires the secretary to determine the security level of the beds to be added.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1730 (Padilla-D) State correctional facilities: metal detection screening
Requires every person entering a state correctional facility to be screened by means of a metal detection device prior to entering the facility.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SJR 33 (Dutton-R) National Institute of Corrections
Memorializes that the President and Congress continue to provide funding for the National Institute of Corrections, as specified.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

AB 39 (Benoit-R) Undocumented criminal aliens: costs of incarceration
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to annually bill the federal government, in writing, for the full cost of incarcerating any undocumented criminal alien incarcerated in California's correctional system.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
A similar bill was AB 458 (Cook-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee.

AB 77 (Lieber-D) Parole reform
Appropriates $4.35 million to the Corrections Standards Authority to provide $75,000 grants to counties to develop multiagency action plans to address issues related to parolees and recidivism. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to appoint a five-member working group of national experts to develop an action plan for state parole reform. Requires the working group to submit its reform plan to the Legislature and the department no later than 90 days after this bill becomes operative.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 79 (Galgiani-D) Parole
Authorizes the Board of Parole Hearings to extend the denial for a prisoner subject to a two-year parole review up to two additional years, for a total of four years, if the Board finds that the record, based on a review of relevant evidence, supports the additional time. Provides that if the prisoner has been convicted of murder, the Board shall hear the case 10 years after any hearing at which parole is denied.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 88* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: Corrections
Enacts the 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill which, among other provisions, provides $136 million in lease-revenue bonds for the Condemned Inmate Complex at San Quentin Prison. Includes budget bill language changes associated with Small Management Yards. Incorporates additional General Fund savings of $10.4 million from the delayed implementation of the Northern California Re-entry Facility.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2008 -- Item Veto

AB 148 (Lieber-D) Female offenders: dental care
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prioritize implementation of the provisions of the settlement in Perez v. Tilton in all institutions that house female inmates. Provides that female offenders who are otherwise eligible for placement in community correctional facilities but whose placement is delayed because of unresolved dental problems shall receive priority for dental care.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2877 (Lieber-D) which died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 161 (Bass-D) Anti-recidivism grants
Creates a competitive grant program to provide funds to local community-based organizations, law enforcement agencies, and service providers to establish and provide reentry services for "offenders."
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 439 (Ma-D) Inmate Welfare Fund
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to deposit any interest accruing on inmate trust accounts, fewer expenses incurred in the investment, in individual inmate or parolee trust accounts on a proportional basis depending upon the amount of funds each individual inmate or parolee account has on deposit.
Chapter 210, Statutes of 2008

AB 457 (Cook-R) Corrections: investigations
Requires all allegations or complaints regarding Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) employee misconduct to be investigated by the CDCR Office of Internal Affairs and requires investigation results to be written. Requires CDCR to develop a plan to increase the use of surveillance cameras within the institutions they administer and issue a report containing the plan to the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 458 (Cook-R) Costs of incarceration: undocumented criminal aliens
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, by 1/1/09, to demand, in writing, that the United States Attorney General take federal custody of any undocumented criminal alien incarcerated in California's correctional system, and if the federal government does not comply with the demand, then the Secretary shall annually bill the federal government for the costs of incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
A similar bill was AB 39 (Benoit-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee.

AB 664 (Parra-D) Prison Industry Authority: dairy products
Restricts the market for dairy products produced under the auspices of the Prison Industry Authority.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 716 (DeVore-R) Prison design plans
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prepare plans for design and construction of a prison to house 4,000 inmates whose commitment offense is alcohol or drug related. Specifies that the plans are to include detailed descriptions of programming and staffing.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 824 (Saldana-D) Inmate work camps
Establishes additional criteria for inmates eligible to be assigned to Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation conservation work camps.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 890 (Aghazarian-R) Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training
Reconstitutes the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training for purposes of correctional officer training, locating it within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and removing responsibility for the correctional officer training from the Corrections Standards Authority.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 931 (Ruskin-D) Community corrections
Appropriates $149,000 from the General Fund to the Robert Presley Center of Crime and Justice Studies located at the University of California, Riverside, for a study into correction alternatives in San Mateo County.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1029 (Caballero-D) Prisons: inmate education
Establishes the 13-member California Correctional Education Advisory Board within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and charges the Board with specified duties and obligations.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1081 (Garrick-R) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: mutual aid
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to enter into an agreement with the United States Department of Homeland Security for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to train and authorize certain CDCR personnel to perform functions relating to the investigation and processing of inmates who are illegally within the United States.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1121 (Lieber-D) Inmates
Requires a court-ordered transfer of a defendant found mentally incompetent to stand trial to a state hospital or other suitable facility to occur within 14 days of the court's order, and requires that a certification that a defendant has regained mental competency to include a determination whether placing the defendant in a jail environment would create substantial risk that the defendant would again become incompetent.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1189* (Solorio-D) Prison health care construction
Enacts the Prison Health Care Construction Program, including a $6.9 billion revenue bond authorization and a $100 million General Fund appropriation.
(Died on Senate Floor)
A similar bill was SB 1665 (Machado-D) which failed passage on Senate Floor.

AB 1349 (Galgiani-D) Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation: San Joaquin County
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to consult with San Joaquin County regarding any proposed conversion of a facility under the Division of Adult Institutions that is used or most recently has been used for female inmates, or the transfer of any facility currently under the Division of Juvenile Facilities to the Division of Adult Institutions, for any facility or property in the possession of the department that is located within San Joaquin County.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1757 (Hayashi-D) Parole hearings
Provides that a designated representative for Parole Board Hearing purposes includes the victims registered domestic partner.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1883 (Keene-R) Fire: inmate crews: nonprofit organization
Authorizes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with a qualified nonprofit organization, as defined, for the use of inmates or wards for fire prevention, fire control, and other work of the department, or "other conservation projects" that are appropriate for the nonprofit organization.
Chapter 259, Statutes of 2008

AB 1923 (Anderson-R) Local correctional facilities: contraband
Prohibits any person housed in a local correctional facility from possessing any device designed or intended to open or unlatch a handcuff who is not authorized to possess that item. Provides that a violation of this offense would be a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for up to six months, a fine of up to $1,000, or by both.
Chapter 190, Statutes of 2008

AB 1965 (Swanson-D) Prisoners: early release
Permits early release of specified prison inmates over the age of 55 years of age from California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1984 (Swanson-D) Corrections: HIV/AIDS testing
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to make available tests for the HIV at each state prison for each inmate of a state prison, on a voluntary basis, prior to the inmate's release from prison.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1996 (Swanson-D) Drug felonies: food stamps: eligibility
Extends eligibility for food stamp benefits to convicted drug felons who distributed controlled substances.
Vetoed

AB 2070 (Bass-D) Incarcerated parents: foster care
Increases the time reunification services may be offered to parents whose children are dependents of the court in consideration of barriers faced by parents who are incarcerated, institutionalized, or in residential substance abuse treatment to accessing services.
Chapter 482, Statutes of 2008

AB 2099 (Hancock-D) Inmates: identification cards
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a pilot program at Folsom State Prison and San Quentin State Prison for the purpose of providing each inmate with a valid California identification card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles prior to release. Specifies the department's duties in providing and obtaining the information necessary for eligible inmates to obtain identification cards.
Vetoed

AB 2108 (Spitzer-R) Parole: discharge
Prohibits the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from releasing a person on parole who has an outstanding restitution fine or order unless the Board of Parole Hearings reviews the circumstances and determines that release is appropriate. Provides that the aforementioned shall only apply to persons who are sentenced to prison for a crime committed on or after 1/1/09.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2109 (Spitzer-R) Parole: discharge
Provides that a person who is scheduled to be discharged from parole without being referred to the Board of Parole Hearings shall receive a discharge recommendation from his/her parole agent, the unit supervisor, and the district administrator prior to being discharged. Provides that if a district administrator wishes to discharge a person from parole against the recommendation of the parole agent and unit supervisor, then the person shall be referred to the Board for a determination of whether discharge is appropriate.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2119 (Galgiani-D) Corrections: medical equipment and care
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, subject to approval by the federal receiver of medical care, to establish a list of durable medical equipment and to determine the maximum allowable reimbursement rates for each item.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2141 (Tran-R) Corrections: foreign inmates
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to verify the immigration status of any new prisoner under the department's custody. Requires correctional officers to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the verification and any deportation process for these prisoners, and provides that correctional officers shall be trained in cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to conform with laws and regulations pertaining to immigration and customs.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2158 (Soto-D) Correctional officer: bloodborne diseases
Provides that if a dependent or former dependent of a correctional officer at a state prison contracts a bloodborne infectious disease from the employee, as specified, he/she may be compensated for health care costs associated with the disease.
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2008

AB 2334 (Sharon Runner-R) Parole: sexually violent predators
Defines a "frivolous petition", as specified under provisions of existing law, as a petition not supported by competent and admissible evidence that substantiates and corroborates the petitioner's claim that he/she has so changed, and that he/she is not a danger to others in that it is not likely that he/she will engage in sexually violent criminal behavior if placed under supervision and treatment in the community.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2422 (Huff-R) Corrections: undocumented felons
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement and maintain procedures to identify inmates serving terms in state prison or wards of the Division of Juvenile Facilities who are undocumented felons subject to deportation.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2525 (Galgiani-D) Criminal behavior: preschool attendance.
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and its Division of Juvenile Justice to ask whether new inmates and wards attended preschool.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2574 (Emmerson-R) Jails: inmate welfare funds
Adds the counties of Kern, San Bernardino and Santa Clara to the eight counties currently authorized, as part of a pilot program, to permit inmate welfare fund monies to be spent assisting inmates with reentry services within 14 days of the inmate's release from jail.
Chapter 16, Statutes of 2008

AB 2652 (Anderson-R) Prisoners: health and social services
Adds marriage and family therapists to the list of mental health professionals who may gain qualifying experience for licensure under the auspices of the state correctional system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2671 (Salas-D) Prisoners: veterans
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to do the following with respect to inmates who are military veterans: (1) Create a prerelease application process for honorably discharged incarcerated veterans, (2) ask whether or not a person is a military veteran when they are committed to prison, and (3) make the number of incarcerated veterans available to the Legislature annually commencing on 7/1/09.
Vetoed

AB 2877 (Lieber-D) Female offenders: medical and dental care
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to ensure that offenders in each group of prison facilities listed in a settlement agreement receive dental services concurrently with others in the same group. Requires female offenders that are eligible for community correctional center placement but delayed due to dental problems to receive priority care. Authorizes the department to enter into a memoranda of understanding with counties for medical, dental, and mental health services in community correctional centers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 148 (Lieber-D) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee.

AB 2929 (Hancock-D) Corrections reentry program
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a statewide comprehensive reentry program to help parolees reintegrate into their communities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2972 (Lieber-D) Corrections: female offenders
Requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct a study of the effectiveness of the Family Foundations Program and the mother-infant care programs to review (1) whether the programs affect recidivism rates of participants, (2) whether housing women in these programs is cost-effective;, and (3) the effect of the programs on the children who live with their mothers in the programs, including an estimate of potential savings to the extent the program reduces the likelihood of their future criminality. Requires that the study be reported to the Legislature by 12/1/09.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 3019 (Carter-D) Corrections: disabled and mentally ill prisoners
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a developmentally disabled prisoner program to identify inmates eligible for Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Act services and creates a plan to monitor these individuals to ensure they are identified and receive services from the appropriate regional center.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 24 (Blakeslee-R) Correctional facilities: reimbursement
Urges the Governor to demand the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance reimburse California for all costs of incarcerating undocumented foreign nationals.
Resolution Chapter 88, Statutes of 2008

Victims of Crime

SB 1249 (Calderon-D) Crime Victims Trust Fund
Establishes the Crime Victims Trust Fund and makes the interest from the proceeds of the fund continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the Governor's secretary for victim services for the purpose of developing services at the community level for crime victims who are eligible for compensation. Requires these programs to begin operation no later than 7/1/09. Transfers $50 million from the Restitution Fund to the Crime Victims Trust Fund. Declares the intent of the Legislature that funds provided from the Crime Victims Trust Fund to any entity for the purpose of developing services shall not supplant any public funding already being provided to that same entity for that purpose. Requires the Crime Victim Advocate of the Office of the Governor to convene a task force, composed of representatives of specified governmental and private entities and organizations, to review a certain report and make recommendations.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 717 (Fuller-R) Victim Compensation Fund
Provides that an application by a crime victim for compensation based on any of specified crimes involving sex with a minor may be filed any time prior to the victim's 28th birthday. Authorizes granting relocation expenses under these provisions to the crime victim or, if the victim is deceased, a person who resided with the deceased at the time of the crime. Double-jointed with AB 2809 (Leno-D).
Chapter 582, Statutes of 2008

AB 858* (Spitzer-R) Crime victim trusts
Exempts income of a qualified crime victim trust from income taxation.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 1125 (Richardson-D) Protective orders: victims of crime
Authorizes a law enforcement officer to issue an emergency protective order without contacting the court, if certain conditions apply, including that the superior court has issued a standing order authorizing a law enforcement officer to issue an emergency protective order for that court, and the officer believes there is an immediate and present danger to the victim.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1660 (La Malfa-R) Victims' rights: presence during criminal proceedings
Provides that after a victim testifies, he/she has the right to attend all other proceedings unless the court makes a determination as to the need to order exclusion.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 2038 (Lieber-D) Victims of crime: persons with disabilities
Enacts the Crime Victims with Disabilities Act of 2008. Revises, and proposes to revise, statutes relating to professional training, reporting, oversight, and representation with the intent to better serve the needs of persons with disabilities who may be crime victims.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2043 (Spitzer-R) Crime victims' memorial: State Capitol Park
Authorizes the California Crime Victims' Memorial Foundation, upon its establishment, in consultation with the Department of General Services and a specifically created committee, to construct and maintain a memorial in the Capitol Historic Region to honor California residents who are victims of crime.
Chapter 584, Statutes of 2008

AB 2289 (Sharon Runner-R) Juveniles: victims of crime: rights
Provides that specified information about wards committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities be provided to victims regardless of commitment offense, as specified.
Chapter 154, Statutes of 2008

AB 2410 (Nava-D) Sexually violent predators: victim's rights
Prohibits disclosure in a sexually violent predator case of information about the victim of a prior qualifying sex crime, except as is necessary to litigate the matter, or pursuant to court order, provides that willful violation of the prohibition is a misdemeanor, authorizes the court to describe the victim in court documents and proceedings as Jane Doe or John Doe, unless that prejudices either party, and provides that the court shall instruct the jury that the use of a Doe name is done to protect the victim's privacy.
Chapter 155, Statutes of 2008

AB 2745 (Berryhill-R) Crime victims' rights
Delineates specific victims' rights in capital post-conviction proceedings in addition to those granted statutorily to crime victims.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2809 (Leno-D) Crime victims: mental health counseling
Allows a minor who suffers emotional injury as a direct result of witnessing a violent crime to be eligible for reimbursement for the costs of outpatient mental health counseling if the minor was in close proximity to the victim when he/she witnessed the crime. Double-jointed with AB 717 (Fuller-R).
Chapter 587, Statutes of 2008

Weapons

SB 327 (Migden-D) Firearms
Requires that by 7/1/12, a gun dealer's record of electronic transfer contain the date a transferred handgun is delivered, a place to indicate if the handgun is released to the purchaser, and whether the purchaser is concurrently requesting a handgun registration notification be issued.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 860 (Correa-D) Remote stun guns
Defines a "permissible remote stun gun" that may be sold in California. Provides that possession of a remote stun gun that does not meet this definition is a misdemeanor, "punishable by imprisonment in the state prison," a fine of up to $1,000, or both. Requires that remote stun gun sellers obtain personal identifying information from buyers and provide it to the manufacturer. Establishes a class of persons who are prohibited from purchasing or possessing a remote stun gun. Provides that all remote stun gun buyers are subject to a background check facilitated by the manufacturer, as specified. Provides that failure of a remote stun gun seller to register the identity of the purchaser with the manufacturer is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $1,000. Provides that each remote stun gun purchaser must register the weapon with the manufacturer and that possession of an unregistered remote stun gun is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $1,000. Provides that an assault on a peace officer engaged in the performance of his/her duties with a remote stun gun or a permissible remote stun gun is a felony, punishable by two, three or four years in state prison.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 1033* (Runner-R) Undetectable knives
Expressly prohibits the export out-of-state of undetectable knives, as defined, to prohibit keeping undetectable knives for dealer, wholesaler, or distributor sale, and to require that any sale of undetectable knives to exempt entities be make pursuant to a valid purchase order.
Chapter 111, Statutes of 2008

SB 1162 (Maldonado-R) Hard plastic knuckles
Expands existing law to include hard wooden knuckles as an offense for manufacturing or importation into this state.
Chapter 346, Statutes of 2008

SB 1171 (Scott-D) Firearms: loaded firearm in vehicles
Applies existing penalties for carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle on certain streets, to carrying a loaded firearm in a vehicle on any public street, road or highway, except as specified.
Vetoed

AB 129 (Emmerson-R) Imitation firearms
Makes it a crime for a person to draw or exhibit an imitation firearm in the presence of a peace officer in such a way as to cause a reasonable person fear of bodily harm.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 352 (Solorio-D) Imitation firearms
Expands the existing prohibition against openly displaying or exposing any imitation firearm in a public place to include any such display on the grounds of a public school.
Chapter 422, Statutes of 2008

AB 362 (De Leon-D) Ammunition
Requires the Attorney General to submit a feasibility report to the Legislature, by 1/1/09, pertaining to the licensing and registration of handgun ammunition sales.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 837 (Feuer-D) Firearms: prohibited persons
Clarifies that whenever the Department of Justice is authorized to conduct a background check on an individual regarding his/her eligibility to possess a firearm that it shall make that determination based on the eligibility requirements of both state and federal law.
Chapter 698, Statutes of 2008

AB 1105 (Garrick-R) Firearms
Requires the Department of Justice, on or before 7/1/08, to submit a report to the Legislature containing specific information relating to the processing of firearms purchase applications.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1218 (Duvall-R) Antique firearms
Exempts antique firearms, as defined by federal law, from the Department of Justice's testing of firearms program.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 1357 (Parra-D) Handgun safety certificates: exemptions
Exempts any person who has a certificate of completion of a hunter safety course or who holds a valid California hunting license from having to obtain a handgun safety certificate in order to purchase a handgun.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1979 (Aghazarian-R) Firearm violence education program
Establishes a competitive grant pilot program in three jurisdictions, to provide for a one-year program to disseminate information regarding current prison penalties for the personal use of a firearm during the commission of certain felonies. Appropriates $3,000,000 from the General Fund to the Office of Emergency Services for purposes of the program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2062 (De Leon-D) Ammunition
Requires the Department of Justice to establish a program for licensing handgun ammunition vendors.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2235 (DeSaulnier-D) Owner-authorized handguns.
Defines "owner-authorized handgun." Requires the Attorney General (AG), starting 7/1/09 and annually thereafter through 2014, to submit a report, as specified, to the Governor and the Legislature summarizing the current availability of owner-authorized handguns. Amends handgun safety requirements for both revolvers and pistols, beginning 18 months after the release of a report by the AG reporting that owner-authorized handguns are available for retail sale. Establishes performance standards for owner-authorized handguns. Requires the AG to inform a manufacturer of an owner-authorized handgun of the provisions of California law relating to owner-authorized handguns and invite the manufacturer to submit its handguns for testing at the manufacturer's expense. Makes it a misdemeanor, 18 months after the release of a report by the AG reporting that owner-authorized guns are available for retail sale, for any person who intentionally disables or circumvents the technology of an owner-authorized handgun, except as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2470 (Karnette-D) Crimes: weapons
Expands the prohibition against bringing or possessing specified weapons on the grounds of, or within, specified schools to include any instrument that expels a non-metallic BB or pellet, and conforms the prohibition as it applies to grades K-12 to specified colleges and universities.
Chapter 676, Statutes of 2008

AB 2498 (Saldana-D) Firearms training: eligibility to possess firearms
Requires specified organizations that provide firearms training, firearms tactical training, or security tactical training, and have a written contract for firearm training with the federal government, shall require proof that any individual receiving the training is not prohibited from possessing a firearm.
Vetoed

AB 2566 (Hancock-D) Firearms: prohibitions
Provides that no provision of law shall limit the authority of any city, county, or city and county to regulate or prohibit the purchase, sale, ownership, possession, keeping, carrying, manufacture, transfer, or distribution of handguns within the jurisdiction limits of that city, county, or city and county.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2590 (Feuer-D) Firearms: criminal street gangs
Clarifies the definition of "active participant in a criminal gang" for the purposes of applying enhanced penalties for carrying a concealed or loaded gun, or for illegal transfer of a gun, as specified, and abrogates two California Supreme Court cases.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2696 (Krekorian-D) Firearms: background checks
Requires that the Department of Justice (DOJ) participate in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Requires the DOJ, upon receiving information that a person is prohibited from possessing a firearm, as specified, to report that information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Requires that, by 7/1/11, specified mental health facilities report to the DOJ only by electronic means when a person is admitted to that facility either because that person was found to be a danger to themselves or others or was certified for intensive treatment for a mental disorder.
Vetoed

AB 2706 (Feuer-D) Dangerous weapons: composite hard knuckles
Makes the possession, manufacture, importation or sale of composite knuckles, or hard wooden knuckles, as defined, a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail, a fine of up to $1,000, or both.
Vetoed

AB 2948 (Leno-D) Firearms: sales at the Cow Palace
Prohibits firearms or ammunition sales on the state property known as the Cow Palace.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

AB 2973 (Soto-D) Weapons: stun guns
Replaces the reference to taser in the definition of stun gun. Provides that it is a misdemeanor to sell a less lethal weapon to a person under the age of 18.
Chapter 556, Statutes of 2008

AJR 46 (Benoit-R) Right to keep and bear arms
Memorializes the California State Legislature's declaration of support for the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution relating to the right to keep and bear arms.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Courts and Judges/Legal Professions

SB 481 (Runner-R) Loan assumption program for licensed attorneys
Establishes the Public Safety Incentive Program, administered by the California Student Aid Commission, to provide up to $40,000 in loan assumption benefits over a five-year period to attorneys employed as prosecutors or public defenders, as specified.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)

SB 608 (Wiggins-D) Judges' Retirement System
Makes several changes to the provisions governing the ability of a member of the Judges' Retirement System I to elect an optional settlement prior to retirement.
Chapter 1, Statutes of 2008

SB 1068* (Ducheny-D) Budget Act of 2007: augmentation: judges
Appropriates $12,858,000 to fund a current-year shortfall in the Judges' Retirement Fund. The Government Code requires salary increases for judges based on the average percentage salary increase for the current fiscal year for other state employees. The amount included in the 2007 Budget Act did not account for subsequent increases negotiated with state bargaining units, which were unknown at the time. In turn, the higher salary increases the retirement benefits for retired judges in the Judges' Retirement System I.
Chapter 22, Statutes of 2008

SB 1150 (Corbett-D) Courts: judgeships
Establishes, upon appropriation by the Legislature, 50 new superior court judgeships in the 2009-10 fiscal year.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1177 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Dispute resolution: fees
Increases civil filing fees to support independent community dispute resolution programs.
Vetoed

SB 1182 (Ackerman-R) Trial courts: restructuring
Enacts the California Law Revision Commission's fourth in a series of bills to amend or delete statutes made obsolete by trial court restructuring.
Chapter 56, Statutes of 2008

SB 1202 (Harman-R) Attorney's fees: class action
Amends current law regarding the award of attorney's fees in cases that have resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest to provide that, in a class action, a judge may order a part of the attorney's fees awarded to be withheld until the class members have received their portion of the settlement funds.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1407 (Perata-D) Court facilities: financing: fees
Allows the issuance of up to $5 billion in lease-revenue bonds to finance the construction of critical needs courthouse construction projects, and supports the debt service for the bonds by raising specified criminal and civil fees and fines.
Chapter 311, Statutes of 2008

SB 1651 (Steinberg-D) Mentally ill offenders
Authorizes superior courts to develop and implement mental health courts. Allows parolees to participate in mental health courts, as specified.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 406 (Galgiani-D) Homicide trial costs: Merced County
Requires the state to reimburse the County of Merced for its full costs related to a capital murder trial (People v. Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera) from the 2007 Budget Act.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 545* (Walters-R) Judges' retirement
Allows administrators in the Public Employees' Retirement System to process applications to purchase service credit for active duty military leave by a member of the Judges Retirement System II, and comply with the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
Chapter 626, Statutes of 2008

AB 692 (Mullin-D) Attorneys: referral services
Specifies that a lawyer referral service includes, but is not limited to, a service provided through the Internet that operates for the purpose of referring potential clients to California attorneys.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 737 (Keene-R) Small claims court jurisdiction
Requires the Judicial Council to study the impact of the existing small claims jurisdictional limits on litigants' access to justice and the potential impact of increasing those limits for other than individuals.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 863 (Davis-D) Los Angeles County Superior Court employees
Requires the Los Angeles County Superior Court to pay each employee in certain, specified bargaining units represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees an amount equivalent to the additional amount the employee would have received if the reclassification raise the employee received on 9/1/05 were retroactive to 8/1/05.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 985 (Saldana-D) Environment: judicial review
Authorizes the courts of appeal to have jurisdiction over writ of mandate petitions seeking review of specified decisions by the Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 1491* (Jones-D) Court facilities
Extends the deadline for transfer of responsibility for court facilities from the counties to the state (Judicial Council) from 6/30/07 to 12/31/08. Requires that any transfer agreement that is executed on or after 1/1/08, and on or before 6/30/08, contain a requirement that the county pay an additional amount annually, to be calculated pursuant to a specified method, and provides that the county is not required to make the additional payment if the county has submitted a proposed county facilities payment in connection with court facilities.
Chapter 9, Statutes of 2008
An identical bill was SB 145 (Corbett-D) which died on Senate Unfinished Business File.

AB 1569 (Mendoza-D) Court reporters: rough draft transcripts
Provides that an instant visual display of court testimony or proceedings shall not be certified and cannot be used, cited, distributed, or transcribed as the official transcript of the proceedings. Provides that the instant visual display of the testimony or proceedings shall not be cited or used to rebut or contradict the official certified transcript of proceedings. Provides that a rough draft transcript cannot be distributed as the official certified transcript of the proceedings. Sunsets on January 1, 2016.
Vetoed

AB 1725 (Lieu-D) Judicial candidates: evaluation
Requires, rather than permits, commencing 1/1/09, the State Bar of California to make public a judicial appointee's rating by the State Bar's Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 1726 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Court interpreters
Requires that court interpreters be provided in civil actions in which a party does not proficiently speak or understand English. (Current law requires the appointment of an interpreter only in certain civil cases involving domestic violence, parental rights, and dissolution of marriage involving a protective order.)
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1820 (Galgiani-D) Counties: homicide trials: reimbursement
Specifies that the current formula for reimbursement to a county for homicide trial costs applies only to trials for offenses committed on or after 1/1/05, and that costs for trials for offenses committed before that date shall be reimbursed according to the formula in place prior to 1/1/05.
Chapter 213, Statutes of 2008

AB 1873 (Lieu-D) Small claims court
Provides the following with respect to small claims court: (1) Requires that a nonrefundable fee of $10 be charged and collected for the filing of a request for postponement and rescheduling of a hearing date before service of notice of the hearing date has been made, as specified, if the court granted a prior postponement to the party making the request, and (2) requires the court in a small claims court judgment to charge and collect all fees associated with the enforcement of judgments under the Enforcement of Judgments Law. Clarifies that a person qualified to interpret for the deaf or hearing impaired is included in the definition of a court interpreter.
Vetoed

AB 1876 (De Leon-D) Superior court security
Requires the Judicial Council of California, after considering the recommendation of the court security working group, to adopt a template or templates and requirements for quarterly reporting of court security services and expenditures, consistent with state accounting standards. Provides that the sheriff shall (1) be accountable for the effective and cost-efficient expenditure of court security funds consistent with the memorandum of understanding entered into in each county, (2) provide quarterly reports to the court and the Judicial Council using the court security template, and (3) maintain reports and records on court security expenditures and services for seven years after reporting.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1949 (Evans-D) Court operations
Deletes obsolete references in the trial preferences statute. Provides that government entities are not exempt from paying civil jury fees and jury deposits. Extends, from 30 to 45 days before the effective date, the deadline for courts to file local rule changes with the Judicial Council. Shifts the revenues from the night/weekend court session assessment from the county treasury to the State Court Facilities Trust Fund. Provides that Madera County is authorized to continue collecting a $7 surcharge on fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed for criminal offenses to support its Criminal Justice Facility Construction Fund.
Chapter 218, Statutes of 2008

AB 2095 (Davis-D) Courts: judicial appointments
Requires the Governor to post on his/her official web site the name of all persons for whom the Governor or his/her representative have provided judicial application materials to either assist in the decision of whether to submit an application to the State Bar for evaluation, or to assist in the decision of whether an applicant should be appointed as a judge following evaluation of the applicant by the State Bar. Requires each member of the State Bar's Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation to complete a minimum of two hours of training annually in the areas of fairness and bias in the judicial appointment process. Requires the State Bar, in collecting and releasing statewide demographic data on all judicial applicants and the Administrative Office of the Courts, and in collecting and releasing demographic data on justices and judges, to use ethnic and racial categories consistent with those used by the Governor.
Vetoed

AB 2164 (Nakanishi-R) County law libraries
Directs the Commission on Civil Court Fees, established by the Judicial Council, to review the level of funding needed to support law libraries and, by 3/1/10, requires the Judicial Council to make recommendations to the Legislature regarding funding needs, potential sources of funding and service mission and delivery models for the law libraries, as well as long-term facility needs in light of the transfer of court facilities from counties to the courts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2189 (Karnette-D) Shorthand reporters: continuing education
Requires the Court Reporters Board of California to establish continuing education requirements for renewal of a shorthand reporter certificate.
Vetoed

AB 2357 (Duvall-R) Courts: private information
Requires the Judicial Council of California to develop and implement policies and procedures for the protection of personal information, as defined, maintained by a superior court and processed or stored by private service providers, consistent with the best interests of the public. Requires the Judicial Council, as part of the process of developing the above policies and procedures, to consider the effect and advisability of prohibiting the outsourcing of data entry services outside the United States.
(Died at Senate Desk)

AB 2379 (Evans-D) Sealing and unsealing court records
Provides an alternative procedure relative to an expedited review process for a ruling on a motion to seal or unseal court records by way of a petition for a writ.
Vetoed

AB 2448 (Feuer-D) Courts: access to justice
Revises and recasts the provisions of Section 68511.3 of the Government Code, the current statute containing procedures for granting a court fee waiver to a litigant who cannot afford to pay the fee. Retains the substance of Section 68511.3 of the Government Code, but provides greater detail on the procedures for making a determination on an application for and recovery of fees after a waiver has been provided.
Chapter 462, Statutes of 2008

AB 2541 (Bass-D) Reentry courts: deferred entry of judgement
Allows a superior court to create a deferred entry of judgment reentry program targeted at preventing recidivism among nonviolent, low-level drug sales offenders. Sunsets on 1/1/12.
Vetoed

AB 3049 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) State Bar Act: fees
Authorizes the State Bar of California to collect annual membership fees for 2009, keeping with the typical approach of an annual dues authorization bill to ensure the State Bar is appropriately funded and provide helpful and appropriate legislative oversight of the State Bar's many important functions.
Chapter 165, Statutes of 2008

AB 3050 (Jones-D) Legal aid: court interpreters: appearances by telephone
Establishes a pilot program to provide court interpreters in specified civil proceedings. Authorizes the Judicial Council to select up to five courts to participate in the pilot program. Provides that participating courts will provide interpreters to any party proceeding in forma pauperis who is present and who does not speak or understand English proficiently enough for the purpose of understanding court proceedings. Requires, on or before 9/1/12, the Judicial Council to report findings and recommendations to the Legislature regarding the need for additional resources to provide interpreters for case types subject to the pilot program and for all civil actions and proceedings. Authorizes the Judicial Council to negotiate master agreements with one or more vendors to provide for telephone services for certain appearances, as provided in current law. Requires the vendor to provide $15 per telephonic appearance to the state to pay the cost of the pilot program and other costs, as specified. Prohibits a person or organization that is not a legal aid organization from using the term "legal aid" or variants in any firm name, trade name, fictitious business name, or other designation, or on any advertisement, letterhead, business card, or sign.
Vetoed

AB 3052 (Jones-D) Court facilities
Provides that, after transfer of responsibility to the state of a court facility that requires replacement either at the time of transfer or subsequently, the Judicial Council may (1) gather information for appropriate alternative methods of project delivery for the court facility replacement, (2) specify a process and criteria for developing these alternative methods of project delivery, and (3) identify variables that will be used to evaluate the proposed alternative methods. Provides that, in reviewing any court facility proposal that includes a lease-purchase agreement or other appropriate multiyear agreement with one or more entities for the delivery of a court facility that will provide payments to the entity or entities for the state's proportional share of project costs, the Director of the Department of Finance shall take into consideration any terms in the proposal that could create long-term funding commitments and how those terms may be structured to minimize risk to the state's credit ratings.
Vetoed

AB 8XXX* (Assembly Budget Committee) Judgeships: 2007-08 Budget
Implements the state operations reduction provisions for the 2007-08 Budget by delaying new judgeships for a year.
Chapter 6, Statutes of 2007-08, Third Extraordinary Session

AJR 38 (Levine-D) Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2007
Urges the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that provides competitive grants for training court reporters and closed captioners.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

Law Enforcement

SB 128 (Margett-R) State claims: Dept. of the California Highway Patrol
Authorizes the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to deny, adjust, or pay a claim arising out of CHP activities without the prior approval of the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board if the claim involves vehicle damage, an impound dispute, or minor property damage, the amount claimed is $5,000 or less; and the Director of the Department of Finance certifies that a sufficient appropriation for the payment of the claim exists.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 154 (Cedillo-D) Workers' compensation: public safety
Deletes the two-year limit on the payment of temporary disability to volunteer and paid law enforcement and firefighting employees who suffer from specified injuries and conditions.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 447 (Maldonado-R) Junk dealers
Requires a junk dealer or recycler to report information about each sale or purchase of junk to the chief of police of the city or the sheriff of the county in which the junk dealer or recycler purchased the junk, in the same manner as required by a second hand dealer or coin dealer, as specified.
Chapter 732, Statutes of 2008

SB 479 (Hollingsworth-R) Impersonating a peace officer
Enacts a five-year enhancement of sentence where the perpetrator of a kidnapping, or a specified sex offense, impersonated a peace officer in committing the offense. Enacts a two-year enhancement of sentence where a peace officer abuses his/her authority and status to commit such a crime.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 495* (Denham-R) California Agricultural Crime Prevention Program
Allows the counties identified in the Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program and the Central Coast Rural Crime Prevention Program to participate in the California Agricultural Crime Prevention Program.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 657 (Runner-R) Crime
Creates the Safe Neighborhoods Act: Protect Victims, Stop Gang And Street Crime to assist local law enforcement and communities with a combination of programs that augment local law enforcement and early intervention capacity, create regional and statewide antigang networks, and enforce the law, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 691* (Calderon-D) Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous material
Requires junk dealers and recyclers to comply with additional recordkeeping requirements and new payment restrictions when purchasing nonferrous materials (i.e., copper, copper alloys, stainless steel, and aluminum, excluding beverage containers).
Chapter 730, Statutes of 2008

SB 692 (Ashburn-R) In-home supportive services: criminal background checks
Authorizes a background check by a nonprofit consortium or public authority to assist an aged or disabled adult who is ineligible for in-home supportive services in obtaining a criminal background check conducted by the Department of Justice on a provider, as described. Revises the definition of "employer" in the provisions that require the Department of Justice to secure a criminal background check to include an aged or disabled adult, or that individual's authorized representative, who is ineligible to receive in-home supportive services benefits and who receives in-home nonmedical domestic or personal care from a provider.
Chapter 2, Statutes of 2008

SB 722 (Correa-D) Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor
Removes the five person limit on the number of candidates that the Medal of Honor Review Board may recommend. Eliminates the provisions that prohibits the Medal of Honor Board from meeting more than once a year. Authorizes the Governor to award and present the Medal of Honor to one or more public safety officers.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)

SB 726 (Alquist-D) Public safety professionals: workers' compensation
Establishes a one-county, one-year filing period for a retroactive blood-borne infection presumption for specified public safety professionals for the purposes of workers' compensation eligibility. Requires this retroactive presumption applies only to public safety personnel in Santa Clara County.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 731 (Oropeza-D) Massage therapy: criminal background check
Provides that massage practitioners and massage therapists certified by the Massage Therapy Organization, which the bill creates, provide fingerprints for submission to the Department of Justice for a criminal background check.
Chapter 384, Statutes of 2008

SB 798 (Battin-R) State Aeronautics Act: criminal background checks
Requires flight schools in California to run background checks through the Department of Justice for all applicants.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 846 (Harman-R) Criminal street gangs: registration
Requires annual registration and registration each time residence is changed for individuals convicted of street gang crimes and is required to register with the Chief of Police or Sheriff. Provides that violation of these provisions will be punishable as a misdemeanor. Requires the Department of Justice to establish a database containing gang registrant information for use by law enforcement entities.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 860 (Correa-D) Peace officers: remote stun guns
Provides, among other things, that an assault on a peace officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties with a remote stun gun or a permissible remote stun gun is a felony, punishable by two, three or four years in state prison.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)

SB 882 (Harman-R) Teacher credentialing: criminal history: fingerprints
Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the Commission of all applicants for an initial credential, or for the renewal of a credential, for purposes of obtaining certain information relating to convictions, arrests, and bail.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SB 1019 (Romero-D) Peace officer records: confidentiality
Abrogates the California Supreme Court holding in Copley Press, Inc. v. Superior Court for law enforcement agencies currently operating under a federal consent decree on the basis of police misconduct. Restores public access to meetings and hearings regarding peace officer discipline that were open to the public prior to Copley, subject to a number of additional restrictions.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 1164 (Scott-D) Limited peace officer authority: Department of Justice
Grants investigative auditors of the Department of Justice whose primary duty is to investigate financial crimes the authority to serve search warrants for documentary evidence on financial institutions and other specified entities which are not the target of the criminal investigation for which the evidence is sought.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2008

SB 1196 (Runner-R) Local government: coroners
Provides that coroners do not have to inquire into, and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of, all deaths where the deceased has been attended by a physician or a registered nurse who is a member of a hospice care interdisciplinary team in the 20 days preceding death. Additionally specifies procedures for privately requested autopsies.
Chapter 45, Statutes of 2008

SB 1209 (Maldonado-R) Private security services
Requires the Department of Consumer Affairs, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to study the impact of specified declared emergencies on the supply and demand for security guards in the state. Provides that if significant shortages are found to exist, the Department of Consumer Affairs and the Office of Emergency Services are to recommend legislation ensuring that adequate number of security guards are available to protect life and property during emergencies. Provides for a one-time special fund cost of $100,000 to the Department of Consumer Affairs and the Office of Emergency Services for the study.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1212 (Cox-R) Badges: retired peace officer and enforcement volunteers
Authorizes the head of any agency that employs peace officers to issue to retired peace officers or volunteers, as specified, identification in the form of a badge, insignia, emblem, device, label, certificate, card, or writing that clearly states the person's position as a retired peace officer or volunteer.
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)

SB 1241 (Margett-R) Public safety: omnibus
Makes technical and corrective changes to various code sections relating, generally, to criminal justice laws, as specified.
Chapter 699, Statutes of 2008

SB 1282 (Margett-R) Private investigators: continuing education
Requires, beginning 1/1/12, licensed private investigators as a condition of license renewal to complete 12 hours of continuing education in privacy rights, professional ethics, recent legal developments relating to private investigators, and other subjects related to private investigators, and requires any individual licensed private investigator whose license is subject to renewal between 1/1/11 and 1/1/12, to complete six hours of continuing education.
Vetoed

SB 1336 (Cogdill-R) California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System
Expands the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System Advisory committee to include a representative of the Chief Probation Officers of California.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

SB 1381 (Ashburn-R) County sheriffs: funding
Increases the annual General fund appropriation from $18.5 million to $19 million for the Rural and Small County Law Enforcement Assistance Program by adding Tulare County to the list of counties that receive a $500,000 annual grant to enhance law enforcement efforts.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1531 (Correa-D) Law enforcement training: autism spectrum disorder
Requires, upon the next regularly scheduled review of a training module relating to persons with disabilities, the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to crate and make available on DVD and may distribute electronically, a course for peace officers who are first responders to emergency situation on how to recognize and interact with autistic persons.
Chapter 621, Statutes of 2008

SB 1591 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Criminal investigations: eyewitnesses
Requires the Department of Justice and the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, in consultation with specified entities, to develop new policies and procedures for the collection and handling of eyewitness evidence in criminal investigations by 12/31/09. Requires the Department of Justice to report to the Legislature by 12/31/10 on the voluntary implementation of the guidelines and training by state law enforcement agencies.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1615 (Florez-D) Attorney General: designations
Provides that the Attorney General may designate any employee in his or her office to act as a deputy to represent the Attorney General on boards or commissions.
Chapter 182, Statutes of 2008

SCR 53 (Denham-R) CHP Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway
Honors the memory of California Highway Patrolman (CHP) Earl H. Scott, 36, who in the early morning hours of 2/17/06, was tragically killed in the line of duty just two days short of his fifth anniversary as a highway patrolman, when he was fatally shot during a traffic stop on State Route 99 outside Ripon, California, by designating Highway Route 219 from State Highway Route 99 to State Highway Route 108, in Modesto, Stanislaus County, as the CHP Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)

SCR 56 (Correa-D) California Peace Officers' Memorial Day
Designates Friday, 5/9/08 as California Peace Officer's Memorial Day, and urges all Californians to remember those individuals who have given their lives for our safety and expresses appreciation to those who continue to dedicate themselves to making California a safer place in which to live and raise our families.
Resolution Chapter 21, Statutes of 2008

SCR 57 (Maldonado-R) CHP Officer Loren D. Scruggs Memorial Highway
Honors the memory of California Highway Patrol Officer Loren D. Scruggs who, on 4/23/71, at the age of 35 years, was killed in the line of duty near the Betteravia Avenue off ramp on State Highway Route 101, by designating a portion of State Highway Route 101 in the City of Santa Maria in Santa Barbara County as the Officer Loren D. Scruggs Memorial Highway.
Resolution Chapter 38, Statutes of 2008

SCR 119 (Dutton-R) The CHP Officer John Bailey Memorial Freeway
Honors the memory of California Highway Patrol Officer John Bailey who was killed in the line of duty during the evening hours of 2/25/06, during a traffic stop on State Highway Route 15 near State Highway Route 395 in the City of Hesperia when a drunk driver collided with his patrol motorcycle, fatally injuring him, by designating Highway Route 15 between State Highway Routes 10 and 210 in the city of Rancho Cucamonga in the County of San Bernardino as the "CHP Officer John Bailey Memorial Freeway."
Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2008

SCR 132 (Perata-D) CHP Officer Brent William Clearman Memorial Freeway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 880 as the California Highway Patrol Officer Brent William Clearman Memorial Freeway, to honor the memory of Officer Clearman who on 8/6/06, was struck by a hit and run driver while investigating a traffic collision in Alameda County. Officer Clearman was immediately transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Resolution Chapter 141, Statutes of 2008

AB 20 (Eng-D) Intergroup relations
Creates a mechanism for assessing and improving human relations. Appropriates $145,000 from the General Fund to the Attorney General to enable the California Community Relations Service in the Crime and Violence Prevention Center contract with a statewide nonprofit organization that is composed of human-relations organizations.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 38 (Nava-D) Homeland security
Consolidates the Office of Emergency Services and the Office of Homeland Security into a new cabinet-level Department of Emergency Services and Homeland Security responsible for overseeing and coordinating emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and homeland security activities, as specified, and which would have access to state summary criminal history information maintained by the Department of Justice and authority to access and maintain intelligence and security procedure information exempt from the California Public Records Act.
Chapter 372, Statutes of 2008

AB 88* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: law enforcement
Enacts the 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill which, among other provisions, (1) provides an additional $900,000 for program operations for the Office of Gang Youth Violence Policy, (2) increases by $10 million for the California Multijurisdictional Methamphetamine Enforcement Teams, and provides $32 million in General Fund monies in lieu of increased fee reimbursements to support the state forensic labs, and (3) restores $31.5 million General Fund monies for booking fees and accounts for restoration of the small and rural sheriff's subvention.
Chapter 269, Statutes of 2008 -- Item Veto

AB 128 (Dymally-D) Pupils: Gang Violence Mitigation Pilot Programs
Establishes the Gang Violence Mitigation Pilot program, until 1/1/12, to provide gang alternative education, counseling, and support services to elementary and middle school pupils in the Compton Unified School District, the Long Beach Unified School District, the Oakland Unified School District, and the San Bernardino Unified School District.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 186* (Maze-R) Rural crime prevention
Extends the sunset on the Central Valley Rural Crime Prevention Program for three years.
Chapter 755, Statutes of 2008

AB 268* (Assembly Budget Committee) California Highway Patrol
Enacts the 2008 Transportation Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, increases vehicle registration fees by $11 to fund the increased cost and number of California Highway Patrol officers.
Chapter 756, Statutes of 2008

AB 301 (Soto-D) Criminal street gangs: statewide prevention
Creates the position of the California Gang Prevention Coordinator, within the Department of Justice, who will be responsible for coordinating gang prevention efforts statewide, as specified. Requires the Attorney General to request funding for the position as part of the annual budget process and makes appointment to the position contingent on obtaining funds.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 325 (Nava-D) Peace officers: recruitment
Creates the Peace Officer Recruitment and Retention Commission, charged with making related recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor. Requires the Commission to develop and implement a pilot program in Los Angeles, Ventura, and Napa counties to create a media campaign to advertise and market the benefits of a law enforcement career, and track the number of new applicants drawn to the field of law enforcement as a result of the pilot program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 376 (Nava-D) Airport police officers: retirement
Authorizes contracting agencies to include specified airport law enforcement officers within the local safety member classification with specified exceptions.
Vetoed

AB 416 (Garcia-R) Arson registry
Requires the Department of Justice, on or before 7/1/09, to make specified personal identifying information in the arson registry available to the public on its web site, including the last, first, and middle name of the registrant and any known aliases, a photograph of the registrant, the registrant's physical description, including but not limited to, sex race, hair color, eye color, weight, and date of birth, and the registrant's county of residence and ZIP code.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 419 (Lieber-D) Safety employees: workers' compensation
Deletes the restriction that limits safety employees, relative to leaves of absence, who are members of the Public Employees' Retirement System or the Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System or subject to the County Employees' Retirement Law of 1937.
Vetoed

AB 440 (Parra-D) Law enforcement: offender data
Requires district attorneys to collect and submit annually to the Attorney General, for purposes of a report from the Attorney General to the Legislature, information regarding the disposition of specified child pornography offenses and offenses involving the luring of a child, including offender profiles by race, age, gender, and ethnicity, with particular focus on felonies that are reduced to misdemeanors.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 459 (Cook-R) In-home supportive services: criminal background checks
Authorizes criminal background checks of potential in-home supportive services personnel conducted by the Department of Justice or an investigative consumer reporting agency, and allows potential providers or service recipients to be charged for the cost of conducting the investigations.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)

AB 525 (De Leon-D) Homeland security: training center
Requires the Director of the Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Director of the Office of Emergency Services and other stakeholders, to examine the utilization of federal funding options for the development of a State Emergency Operations Center for the Southern California Region.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 528 (Aghazarian-R) Graffiti prevention: "Tag, You're It" Act of 2007
Creates the "Tag, You're It" Graffiti Vandalism Prevention and Prosecution pilot program under the Office of Emergency Services.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 589 (Levine-D) Teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention
Requires school districts to develop policies, procedures, and training regarding the prevention of teen dating violence and sexual violence.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 621 (Smyth-R) Reserve peace officers: universities
Authorizes the trustees of the California State University and the Regents of the University of California to establish reserve peace officer programs to supplement their respective police departments.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 635 (Duvall-R) Peace officers: circumstance in aggravation
Includes community college and school district police, as specified, to provisions of law which make attempted murder on a peace officer a circumstance in aggravation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 667 (Smyth-R) Law enforcement animals
Increases the penalties for willfully and maliciously injuring any horse or dog used by a peace officer to imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by both a fine and imprisonment.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 743 (Solorio-D) School security officers
Requires every school district to maintain a minimum ratio of one school security officer for every 500 pupils enrolled at each of its middle schools and comprehensive high schools.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)

AB 788 (Niello-R) Battery: code enforcement officers
Includes a code enforcement officer within the list of specified positions upon which the crime of battery is punishable either as a misdemeanor or a felony.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 790 (Karnette-D) State Penalty Fund: Witness Protection Program
Redirects 4% of funds from the State Penalty Fund, that currently go to the Driver Training Penalty Assessment Fund, to the Department of Justice to support the California Witness Protection Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 791 (Jeffries-R) Public Safety Agency
Creates the California Public Safety Agency, to be supervised by the Secretary of the California Public Safety Agency.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 802 (Salas-D) Criminal street gangs
Creates the California Commission on Gang Prevention and Intervention within the Department of Justice to create and oversee a statewide gang strategy.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 844* (Berryhill-R) Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous material
Requires junk dealers and recyclers to comply with additional recordkeeping requirements and new payment restrictions when purchasing nonferrous materials (i.e., copper, copper alloys, stainless steel, and aluminum, excluding beverage containers).
Chapter 731, Statutes of 2008

AB 849 (Nakanishi-R) Public safety training facilities
Establishes the Public Safety Training Facilities Grant Program, to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services, to provide grants for training police, sheriff, and fire department personnel in counties with an average population density not exceeding 500 persons per square mile.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 890 (Aghazarian-R) Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training
Reconstitutes the Commission on Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training for purposes of correctional officer training, locating it within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and removing responsibility for the correctional officer training from the Corrections Standards Authority.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 907 (Strickland-R) Criminal history records: child welfare proceedings
Requires, among other things, a welfare agency to submit a parent's fingerprints to the Department of Justice for a complete criminal history when determining the parent's suitability for reunification.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 988 (Charles Calderon-D) Federal homeland security grant funds
Authorizes the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Emergency Services, as appropriate, and to the extent permissible by federal law, to include nonprofit organizations in the allocation of federal homeland security grant funds. Requires the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Emergency Services, as appropriate, and to the extent permissible by federal law, to grant priority to training of local law enforcement personnel in the allocation of funds from applicable federal homeland security grants, subject to specified criteria.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1054 (Mullin-D) Autopsies: notification and consent
Requires coroners to make reasonable efforts, as defined, to provide specified information to persons currently authorized in statute to make anatomical gifts of all or part of a decedent's body.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1082 (Garrick-R) Law enforcement
Provides that the Director of the Department of Homeland Security shall administer a program to reimburse local law enforcement in an amount equal to the prorated salary of any officer for the time the officer attends training on the federal Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1084 (Galgiani-D) Highway Patrol Officers: highway signs
Requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to pay for all costs to erect signs along the state highways that memorialize CHP officers killed in the line of duty.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1093 (Sharon Runner-R) Bail: forfeiture
Provides that, if the prosecuting agency elects to seek extradition, the 180-day period for the bail bond to be exonerated shall be tolled until the defendant is returned to the jurisdiction of the court that issued the forfeiture, or until the extradition is terminated by the prosecuting agency, provided that the prosecuting agency provides written notice to the surety and bail agent of that termination.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1115 (Sharon Runner-R) Peace officers: accidents
Expands the definition of authorized emergency vehicle used in the performance of duty by a peace officer or firefighter to include situations where the vehicle has been rented or leased by the employer for official purposes.
Chapter 85, Statutes of 2008

AB 1125 (Richardson-D) Protective orders
Authorizes a law enforcement officer to issue an emergency protective order without contacting the court if certain conditions apply, including that the superior court has issued a standing order authorizing a law enforcement officer to issue an emergency protective order for that court, and the officer believes there is an immediate and present danger to the victim.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1198 (Benoit-R) Law enforcement costs: DUI
Gives law enforcement the right to recover the costs of routine police response and prosecution whenever a person operates a motor vehicle while thought to be potentially intoxicated.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1202 (Richardson-D) Port security: bond funds
Provides for the administration of the Proposition 1B California Port Security Grant Program by the Office of Homeland Security.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1311 (Berryhill-R) DMV: records: confidentiality
Adds community service officers and public service officers employed by city, county, state, university, and college police departments to the statutory list of those occupations for which the Department of Motor Vehicles must hold confidential their home addresses, upon request.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)

AB 1389* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: law enforcement
Enacts the 2008 General Government Budget Trailer Bill which, among other provisions, allows the DNA Identification Fund monies to be used for loans to the General Fund and requires the loans be repaid with interest at 110% of the Pooled Money Investment Account rate.
Chapter 751, Statutes of 2008

AB 1593 (Blakeslee-R) School volunteer aides: background checks
Requires school districts that use nonteaching volunteer aides to adopt a screening policy for those volunteers and to define what a nonteaching volunteer aide is for this purpose. Requires, as a minimum criminal background check, that districts utilize the Department of Justice's "Megan's Law" web site, which tracks registered sex offenders in California.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1595 (Lieber-D) Terrorism prevention
Creates the Terrorism Prevention and Civil Liberties Protection Oversight Committee in the Department of Justice to advise and assist the state in preventing terrorist attacks while protecting civil liberties and human rights.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1597 (Solorio-D) Sheriffs' duties: coastline, harbors, and inland waterways
Provides that the Sheriff of the County of Orange is the sole and exclusive authority to provide security and safety for the coastlines, harbors, and inland waterways in that county.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1625 (Solorio-D) Crime prevention: criminal gangs
Creates the High Intensity Interstate Gang Activity Areas Task Force within the Office of Emergency Services (OES) to formulate a comprehensive strategy for addressing gang activity throughout the state and to advise OES on the appropriate disbursements of funds to regional high-activity gang areas. Specifies that the task force is to enhance crime prevention efforts through increased federal, state, and local law enforcement coordination.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1630 (Sharon Runner-R) Criminal street gangs: registration
Requires those who are convicted of a street gang crime to annually register and re-register upon changing his/her residence.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1812 (Arambula-D) Peace officer tax checkoff
Extends the sunset dates for the California Firefighters' Memorial Fund and the California Peace Officer Memorial Foundation Fund from 1/1/11 to 1/1/16.
Chapter 160, Statutes of 2008

AB 1855 (Portantino-D) Public safety officers
Prohibits the admission of any statement made during interrogation by a public safety officer under duress, coercion, or threat of punitive action in any subsequent judicial proceeding. Provides that this prohibition shall not limit the use of statements made by a public safety officer when the employing public safety department is seeking civil service sanctions against any public safety officer.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1857 (DeVore-R) Fleeing homicide suspects
Requires law enforcement agencies to post information concerning a fleeing homicide suspect on changeable message signs along freeways, as specified, when the agency has reasonable cause to believe a suspect is fleeing California. Requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to develop policies specifying how law enforcement agencies and the Department of Transportation should proceed when a law enforcement agency requests information concerning a fleeing homicide suspect be posted on changeable message signs, including procedures for transferring information between agencies, standardized codes, what information should be posted, as well as when, and recommendations regarding geographical boundaries for alerts.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1899 (Cook-R) Crime prevention
Provides that local and regional Remote Access Network boards may manage, at their discretion, biometric or other automated identification systems in addition to fingerprint identification files retained in the California Identification System, the automated system maintained by the Department of Justice.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1931 (Silva-R) Peace officer powers: illegal dumping officers
Adds part-time, not regularly employed, or volunteer "illegal dumping officers", who have completed specified training, to the list of persons who are not peace officers, but have the powers of arrest.
Chapter 217, Statutes of 2008

AB 1953 (Jeffries-R) Peace officers: district attorney investigators
Includes part-time or temporary investigators employed in the office of a district attorney within that definition of peace officers.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 1958 (Swanson-D) Department of Motor Vehicles: confidentiality of addresses
Adds firefighters, code enforcement officers, and certain veterinarians to the list of peace officers and other public officials who may request the Department of Motor Vehicles to keep their home addresses confidential from disclosure to the general public.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1975 (Solorio-D) Missing persons: DNA database
Deletes the sunset date of 1/1/10, of the additional $2 fee on death certificates, the revenues of which currently fund the Department of Justice's Missing Persons DNA Data Base. Amends and supplies more detail to the protocol for DNA sample collection and handling.
Vetoed

AB 1977 (Benoit-R) Law enforcement communications
Clarifies the procedure by which public safety agencies can obtain customer information from telecommunications corporations.
(Died in Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee)

AB 1990 (Solorio-D) Peace officers: impersonation
Provides that it is a crime to impersonate, or, among other similar things producing, providing, or using false documents or identifiers of, a public officer.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2028 (Solorio-D) Peace officers: hiring
Codifies the circumstances under which the collection of certain background information on applicants for police officer status may be deferred, and places this language in sections of code dealing with peace officers rather than in sections of code within the Fair Employment and Housing Act.
Chapter 437, Statutes of 2008

AB 2068 (Aghazarian-R) Protective orders
Enacts a statute expressly authorizing local law enforcement to notify persons who are protected by certain protective orders by electronic or telephonic means within 24 hours after service of process that the order has been served on the restrained person if the protected person has requested to be notified.
Chapter 153, Statutes of 2008

AB 2125* (Price-D) Supplemental local law enforcement funding
Includes references to job training and employment in the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act, as specified.
Chapter 326, Statutes of 2008

AB 2131 (Niello-R) Peace officers and firefighters: canine units
Specifies that to discriminate against police officers and police dogs, as specified, by charging higher rates than to other customers, in hotels, lodging establishments, eating establishments or public transportation, when those officers and their dogs are assigned duty away from their home jurisdiction because of a declared emergency is subject to a civil fine of up to $1000.
Chapter 226, Statutes of 2008

AB 2198 (Soto-D) Public officers: false representation
Prohibits falsely representing or identifying oneself to certain code enforcement officers.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2199 (Plescia-R) Attorney General: aliens
Requires the Attorney General to negotiate an agreement with the federal government by which state officers and employees will be effectively deputized and loaned to the federal government to serve as federal immigration officers, at state expense, to supplement federal resources, presumably because the federal government has failed to devote adequate or effective efforts to this federal responsibility.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2215* (Berryhill-R) Peace officers: county custodial officers.
Adds Lake, Mariposa, Calaveras, and San Benito to the list of specified counties within which deputy sheriffs assigned to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to specified custodial assignments are defined as "peace officers whose authority extends to any place in California while engaged in the performance of his/her employment."
Chapter 15, Statutes of 2008

AB 2225 (Emmerson-R) District attorneys and city attorneys
Authorizes district attorneys and city attorneys to issue official identification to non-peace officer employees who perform legal, investigative, or prosecutorial services.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2245 (Soto-D) Illegal dumping officers: use of batons
Allows illegal dumping control officers to carry a wooden club or baton.
Chapter 96, Statutes of 2008

AB 2333 (Price-D) Public safety agencies: conduct policy
Requires each state and local public safety agency to provide the Attorney General's office with copies of the policies it has in place to ensure that the use of derogatory epithets or adverse treatment of individuals based on sex, race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, or medical conditions is prohibited.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2377 (Hayashi-D) Law enforcement: custodial officers
Requires a defendant seeking personnel records to present an internally consistent factual scenario of the claimed officer misconduct that is substantially credible when read in light of the pertinent documents. Provides that an affidavit that contains a bare allegation of misconduct, or that simply denies the elements of the charged offense, or that merely denies the veracity of the police report, is insufficient. Requires courts to determine whether good cause for the discovery or disclosure sought has been based on a reasonable and realistic assessment of the facts and allegation.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2420 (Huff-R) Arrests: policy: immigration
Provides that no law enforcement entity or any local governing body may adopt an ordinance or rule, or otherwise implement a policy, that prohibits law enforcement officers from initiating action to discover a person's alien status or that prohibits a law enforcement officer from arresting or booking a person for entering the United States illegally.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)

AB 2524 (Benoit-R) California Gambling Control Commission: background check
Adds a section to the government code to authorize the California Gambling Control Commission to require fingerprint images and associated information from a prospective employee if the employee's duties include, or will include, access to specified information or accountable items.
Chapter 77, Statutes of 2008

AB 2693 (Karnette-D) Local transportation officers
Authorizes designated local transportation officers to present an affidavit to a magistrate for the immediate seizure and removal of a passenger vehicle for hire operated in violation of local licensing requirements.
Chapter 26, Statutes of 2008

AB 2698 (Charles Calderon-D) Career technical education: peace officer
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to coordinate, in consultation with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, the development of model curriculum standards for a career technical education course of study relevant to becoming a peace officer by 1/1/10.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 2754 (Bass-D) Public safety personnel: MRSA skin infections
Adds methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus skin infection as an additional condition that is presumed to be work-related for safety members employed by counties providing retirement under the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937, making them eligible for work-related disability retirement benefits, and removes the existing five years of service eligibility for industrial disability retirement currently required in the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 for injuries caused by blood-borne pathogens.
Chapter 684, Statutes of 2008
A similar bill was AB 166 (Bass-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 2873 (Solorio-D) Counties: sheriffs' duties: coastlines, harbors, and inland
Provides that the Orange County Board of Supervisors may grant authorization to another law enforcement agency within the county to contract security and safety services along the county's coastlines and inland waterways so long as the same minimum standards of training as those applying to peace officers under a specific provision of the Penal Code, employed by the previous law enforcement entity on 1/1/08, are maintained.

(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2960 (La Malfa-R) Custody orders: evidence of sexual abuse
Includes sexual abuse of the child, where the court determines that the acts of sexual abuse are of recent origin or are a part of a demonstrated and continuing patterns of acts of sexual abuse, within the definition of "immediate harm to the child," a showing of which authorizes a court to make an order granting or modifying a custody order on an ex parte basis.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2008

AB 3032 (Lieber-D) Innocence Protection Program
Creates, within the Office of the State Public Defender, the Innocence Protection Grants Program to investigate criminal convictions where defendants may be factually innocent and to bring action to overturn wrongful convictions of persons whose claims are likely to be established by DNA or other probative evidence. Provides grants to qualifying nonprofit organizations, with priority given to organizations that have received funding form the California Innocence Protection Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

ACR 63 (Keene-R) Butte County Officers: Memorial Highway
Designates as the Lieutenant Leonard B. "Larry" Estes and Deputy William R. "Bill" Hunter Memorial Highway the entire four-mile length of Highway 149 in Butte County to honor the memory of both men who were tragically killed by gunfire in the line of duty on 7/26/01 when they were ambushed by a suspect in the Inskip area of Paradise Ridge, in Butte County.
Resolution Chapter 14, Statutes of 2008

ACR 80 (Garcia-R) CHP Officer Robert Franklin Dickey Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of Interstate 8 in Imperial County as the California Highway Patrol Officer Robert Franklin Dickey Memorial Highway to honor the memory of Officer Dickey, a native of Imperial County, who was killed in the line of duty on the morning of 6/11/07.
Resolution Chapter 70, Statutes of 2008

ACR 90 (Fuller-R) Deputy Sheriff William "Joe" Hudnall, Jr., Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Route 178 in Kern County as the Kern County Deputy Sheriff William "Joe" Hudnall, Jr., Memorial Highway. Officer Hudnall was killed in the line of duty on 11/14/06, while transporting a prisoner from Kernville to Bakersfield. While driving on State Route 178 in Kern Canyon, Officer Hudnall's patrol vehicle was struck head-on by a vehicle driven by an individual who was under the influence of a controlled substance.
Resolution Chapter 71, Statutes of 2008

ACR 96 (Carter-D) Deputy Frank M. Pribble Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Route 10 in the City of Fontana in San Bernardino County as the Deputy Frank M. Pribble Memorial Highway. On 7/6/1975, Deputy Pribble was on patrol in a rest area on State Route 10 looking for a suspect wanted in a drive-by shooting when he was fatally shot in the line of duty. Even during the last moments of his life, Deputy Pribble exhibited selfless regard for his life when he told a woman who was trying to assist the wounded offer to "Get out of the way; I don't want you people to get hurt." Deputy Pribble passed away at the young age of 37.
Resolution Chapter 72, Statutes of 2008

ACR 106 (Nava-D) Internet violence prevention
Urges user-generated content Web sites to work with the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to create and develop tools to enhance a safer online experience for children and the public, and to immediately remove actively violent, and criminal content from their Internet web sites, proactively enforce their terms of use, and work with law enforcement to deter, investigate, and prosecute those who utilize their services in the commission of criminal behavior.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

ACR 127 (Tran-R) Garden Grove Police Officers Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 22 in the City of Garden Grove as the "Garden Grove Police Officers Memorial Highway, honoring Myron L. Trapp, Andy R. Reese, Donald R. Reed, Michael L. Rainford, and Howard E. Dallies, Jr." All five Garden Grove police officers were killed in the line of duty between 1959 and 1993.
Resolution Chapter 95, Statutes of 2008

ACR 128 (Arambula-D) Officer Sixto Maldonado, Jr., Memorial Highway
Designates a segment of State Route 33 in the City of Firebaugh in Fresno County as the Officer Sixto Maldonado, Jr. Memorial Highway. Officer Maldonado, Jr. was tragically slain in the line of duty as a Firebaugh police officer on 8/19/1975, at the age of 23.
Resolution Chapter 75, Statutes of 2008

ACR 132 (Smyth-R) National Missing Children's Day
Declares 5/25/08 as National Missing Children's Day.
Resolution Chapter 55, Statutes of 2008

ACR 141 (La Malfa-R) CHP Officer Andrew "Andy" Stevens Memorial Highway
Designates the section of State Highway Route 16 in Yolo County between County Road 98 and Interstate 505 as the Department of the California Highway Patrol Officer Andrew "Andy" Stevens Memorial Highway. CHP Officer Stevens was killed on 11/17/05, in a felonious assault when working road patrol near State Highway Route 16 in rural Yolo County. CHP Officer Stevens had initiated a traffic stop for a Vehicle Code violation and approached the violator's vehicle when he was suddenly and ruthlessly shot by the driver.
Resolution Chapter 137, Statutes of 2008

ACR 144 (Anderson-R) Border Patrol Officer Neil Wilkie Hepburn Memorial Bridge
Designates the bridge on State Highway Route 52 that crosses over West Hills Parkway in Santee, California, as the Border Patrol Officer Neil Wilkie Hepburn Memorial Bridge. On 9/7/07, upon returning home after working a ten-hour shift, Border Patrol Officer Hepburn was hit by a drunk driver who was traveling at 90 miles per hour on the wrong side of SR 52. He was within one exit of leaving the freeway for his house at the time of the accident.
Resolution Chapter 133, Statutes of 2008

AJR 29 (Eng-D) Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Memorializes the Legislature's support for the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Act, and urges the Congress of the United States, including all members of the California delegation, to vote in favor of passage of, and the President of the United States to sign into law, legislation that strengthens the ability of federal, state, and local governments to investigate and prosecute hate crimes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability.
Resolution Chapter 109, Statutes of 2008

AJR 72 (Jones-D) Racial, ethnic, and religious profiling
Urges the Congress and the President not to commence development of profiles to trigger national security investigations that are based, in whole or in part, on a person's race, ethnicity, or religion.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)

Family Law

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SB 11 (Migden-D) Domestic partnerships
Revises the criteria for establishment of a domestic partnership in California to allow opposite-sex couples over 18 years of age to register as domestic partners, by removing the current limitation that at least one of the opposite-sex partners must be at least 62 years old.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 694* (Ashburn-R) Child support obligations
Authorizes the transmission, filing, and recording of a lien record that arises by the operation of law against the real property of the support obligor, pursuant to provisions of existing law, by means of a digitized or a digital electronic record.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1066 (Migden-D) Domestic partnerships
Revises the gender and age criteria for domestic partnerships, permitting adult opposite-sex couples to register as domestic partners.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 1255 (Harman-R) Child custody
Extends the sunset, currently set for 1/1/09, until 1/1/13, in Family Code Section 3041.5, which provides the authority for a court to order any person seeking custody or visitation with a child to undergo testing for alcohol or drugs.
Chapter 57, Statutes of 2008

SB 1333 (Ashburn-R) Paternity judgment: reconsideration
Authorizes the reconsideration of the denial of a motion to vacate a judgment establishing paternity where genetic testing indicates that the previously established father is not the biological father of the child.
Chapter 58, Statutes of 2008

SB 1528 (Wyland-R) Prenuptial agreements
Provides, with respect to a premarital agreement executed on or before 12/31/01, that case law interpreting the facts constituting a voluntary execution of premarital agreements shall apply.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1726 (Scott-D) Adoption
Makes several changes to adoption requirements.
Chapter 534, Statutes of 2008

AB 189 (Dymally-D) Collaborative law
Prohibits an attorney hired to represent one or more parties in a collaborative law process from serving as litigation counsel, except to ask the court to approve a settlement agreement.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 582 (Evans-D) Adoption facilitators
Requires the State Department of Social Services to establish and adopt regulations for a statewide enforcement process for adoption facilitators.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 612 (Ruskin-D) Child custody evaluations
Provides that in the context of child custody evaluations, nonscientific labels and diagnoses that are not consistent with standards generally accepted by the medical, psychiatric, and psychological communities shall be specifically excluded as allowable diagnoses for court use.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 1007 (Maze-R) Parent education programs
Requires all parties in a family law proceeding involving legal separation or marriage dissolution in which minor children are involved to attend a four-hour parent education program prior to judgment for separation or dissolution, subject to court discretion, and requires program costs to be borne by the participants.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1156 (Levine-D) Child support: satellite wagering winnings
Requires a satellite wagering facility, if a wagerer's winnings are subject to federal income tax withholding, to determine if the wagerer is delinquent in his/her child support obligations and to withhold from the wagerer's winnings the amount of any delinquency. Requires the facility to forward the amount withheld to the Department of Child Support Services.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 1279* (Assembly Budget Committee) 2008 Human Services Budget Trailer Bill: family law
Enacts the 2008 Human Services Budget Trailer Bill relative to child support services and the independent adoptions program.
Chapter 759, Statutes of 2008

AB 1332 (Evans-D) Adoption
Makes changes to adoption procedures and the Adoptions Assistance Program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 1679 (Evans-D) Paternity actions: records
Adds agents of a party, and of the party's attorney, to the list of persons who are permitted to inspect court files pertaining to paternity actions if the agents are acting pursuant to written authorization from the party to the action or the party's attorney.
Chapter 50, Statutes of 2008

AB 1822 (Beall-D) Spousal support: sex offenders
Provides that in an original or modification proceeding, the court shall deny any temporary or permanent award for spousal support to a party who has been convicted of a sexual offenses in which the victim was a minor.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1877 (Adams-R) Child custody evaluations: confidentiality
Provides the unwarranted disclosure of a child custody evaluation report may result in the imposition of sanctions by the court. Requires that the Judicial Council, by 1/1/10, adopt a form that informs the report recipient of the confidentiality of the report and the potential consequences for the unwarranted disclosure of the report. Requires the Judicial Council to adopt a rule to require that the prescribed form be included with the report when it is served on the parties. Provides that a disclosure is unwarranted if it is done either recklessly or maliciously, and is not in the best interest of the child.
Chapter 215, Statutes of 2008

AB 2017 (Garrick-R) Family support: tax refunds and lottery winnings
Requires the State Controller to offset, from an amount owed by a state agency to an individual, any amount that is overdue and unpaid for a family support obligation due or payable to the state.
(Died in Assembly Governmental Organization Committee)

AB 2587 (Ruskin-D) Child custody: child custody evaluators
Conforms references to "child custody evaluators" to include court-connected, court-appointed, and private child custody evaluators. Provides that a child custody evaluator's written report and testimony are considered admissible evidence only when they are compliant with provisions specifying the admissibility if the opinions of experts, are based upon sufficient facts or data, and are the product of principles and methods that are consistent with the standards generally accepted by the medical, psychiatric, legal, and psychological communities.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2651* (Aghazarian-R) Foster care, adoption, and dependent children
Makes additional federal conformity changes to various child welfare laws, and ensures the continuation of child welfare federal funding.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2008

AB 2960 (La Malfa-R) Custody orders: evidence of sexual abuse
Includes sexual abuse of the child, where the court determines that the acts of sexual abuse are of recent origin or are a part of a demonstrated and continuing patterns of acts of sexual abuse, within the definition of "immediate harm to the child," a showing of which authorizes a court to make an order granting or modifying a custody order on an ex parte basis.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2008

Civil Law

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SB 150 (Florez-D) Governmental liability: railroad quiet zones
Provides that neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused by the establishment of a quiet zone, as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 216 (Cox-R) Judgments: social security numbers
Deletes, from existing law, the requirement that abstracts of a judgment contain the social security number of a judgment debtor or party ordered to pay support.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 346 (Dutton-R) Liens and encumbrances
Prohibits a person from filing a lien or other encumbrance without providing evidence to the clerk of the pendency of an action or the issuance of a judgment upon which the lien is based.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 371 (Yee-D) Nonresidential tenancy: deposit
Permits a nonresidential landlord to use a deposit, as defined, to compensate the landlord for damages resulting from the termination of the lease under specified provisions regarding unpaid rent, rental loss, and detriment proximately caused by the lessee's failure to perform or which is likely to occur in the ordinary course of events, as specified. Provides that a deposit may be used for repair of damages to the premises caused by the tenant without requiring that the deposit was made for that purpose.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 423 (Harman-R) Exemplary damages
Limits the amount of exemplary damages that are available in actions for breach of an obligation not arising from contract to three times the amount of compensatory damages.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 454* (Harman-R) Estates and trusts: taxation: exemption
Provides that a trust shall not be subject to tax if the trust derives no income from sources in this state and the beneficiaries of the trust are not residents of California.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 459 (Florez-D) Public cemetery districts: interment rights
Creates a statutory scheme for succession to interment rights to plots, niches, or mausoleums in public cemetery districts when the owner has died, leaving no written instruction or designation of the person to whom the right would transfer.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 685 (Yee-D) Pet trusts
Repeals current law on trusts for domesticated or pet animals and enacts new, more detailed provisions for the creation and enforcement of pet trusts.
Chapter 168, Statutes of 2008

SB 738 (Calderon-D) Works of improvement
Requires, under both the Contractors' State License Law, as applicable to public works of improvement only, and the State Contract Act, a contractor, prime contractor, or subcontractor, as applicable, to pay to the subcontractor not later than seven days, rather than the 10 days required in existing law, of receipt of each progress payment request.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 747 (Corbett-D) Persons with disabilities: equal access rights
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that will promote increased compliance by businesses with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, state laws that govern access to public facilities, and federal and state regulations adopted pursuant to those laws, through education and certification programs, with the complementary goal of reducing litigation that seeks attorney's fees and damages without facilitating compliance with those laws.
(Died at Assembly Desk)

SB 800 (Corbett-D) Conservatorship and guardianship
Adds new procedural requirements intended to further protect the interests of conservatees.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 919 (Machado-D) Unclaimed property
Requires the State Controller to mail a notice to each apparent owner within one year after the receipt of a report of escheated property and the escheated property. Requires the State Controller to establish and conduct an outreach program designed to inform owners about the possible existence of unclaimed property received pursuant to the law, and to establish a procedure to locate and notify owners of unclaimed property.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 968 (Simitian-D) Contracts
Voids, as contrary to public policy, any provisions of a contract that provides for a penalty, including, but not limited to, a fee, an increased interest rate, or an accelerated payment schedule, based on behavior not directly related to the performance of the contract, including a default with a person or entity that is not a party of the contract.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1113 (Migden-D) Attorney's fee and costs
Authorizes a court, upon motion, to award attorneys fees, including expert witness fees, to a successful party against one or more opposing parties in any action that has resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest.
Vetoed

SB 1202 (Harman-R) Attorney's fees: public interest: class action
Amends current law regarding the award of attorney's fees in cases that have resulted in the enforcement of an important right affecting the public interest to provide that, in a class action, a judge may order a part of the attorney's fees awarded to be withheld until the class members have received their portion of the settlement funds.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1257 (Machado-D) Consumer rebates
Enacts Title 1.75 in the Civil Code to govern consumer rebates. Limits the information a company or retailer may require as a condition of redeeming a consumer rebate, and adds disclosure and timing requirements, as specified.
Vetoed

SB 1264 (Harman-R) Wills and trusts: no contest clauses
Deletes and re-establishes new rules and guidelines regarding enforcement of no contest clauses.
Chapter 174, Statutes of 2008

SB 1319 (Machado-D) Unclaimed property: escheat.
Amends existing law that governs the disposition of unclaimed property, including the escheat of specified property to the state.
Vetoed

SB 1329 (Harman-R) Charitable institutions: dissolution
Repeals the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act (UMIFA) and enacts the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act which would revise and reenact the provisions contained in UMIFA.
Chapter 715, Statutes of 2008

SB 1356 (Yee-D) Contempt: victim of domestic violence
Prohibits the incarceration of domestic violence victim witnesses for contempt when the contempt consists of refusing to testify concerning that domestic violence, and in this way extend the existing law that applies to victims of sexual assault to victims of domestic violence crimes.
Chapter 49, Statutes of 2008

SB 1421 (Harman-R) Trust administration
Raises the value of assets in a trust that a trustee may terminate without court approval from $20,000 to $40,000.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 1443 (Oropeza-D) Food facilities: donated food
Requires all contracts entered into between caterers and purchasers to include language that gives the purchaser the option of authorizing the caterer to donate leftover food to an appropriate organization or provide the leftover food to the purchaser.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

SB 1449 (Calderon-D) Works of improvement: liens
Requires each person entitled to a mechanics lien in an amount greater than $400 on a work improvement, to prepare a list of other persons with whom that person has contracted to provide labor or materials on the project who would therefore also be eligible to file a mechanic's lien.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 1498 (Senate Judiciary Committee) Maintenance of the codes
Makes numerous technical changes in the California codes that have been recommended by the Office of the Legislative Counsel.
Chapter 179, Statute of 2008

SB 1608 (Corbett-D) Disabled persons: equal access: civil action
Enacts several reforms intended to increase voluntary compliance with longstanding state and federal laws requiring access to persons with disabilities in any place of public accommodation.
Chapter 549, Statutes of 2008

SB 1612 (Kuehl-D) Guardian ad litem
Permits a minor who is the parent of a child who is the subject of certain proceedings, including those involving child dependency, parentage, and guardianship to appear in court without a guardian ad litem.
Chapter 181, Statutes of 2008

SB 1630 (Corbett-D) Civil actions: place of trial
Requires the Judicial Council, in consultation with specified entities, to establish a process for promptly transferring venue of a civil case for trial when (1) the court in which the case was filed has a significant backlog of civil trials, and (2) the backlog is due to documented need for judicial officers in that court, or to other special circumstances that impact the ability of the court to conduct trials in civil action.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

SB 1649 (Steinberg-D) Human trafficking
Requires businesses to establish policies regarding slavery and human trafficking and establishes a commission on this subject.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1667 (Calderon-D) Civil actions: asbestos
Adds a new section to the Civil Code that provides, except as specified, that the cumulative successor asbestos-related liabilities of a corporation are limited to the fair market value, as specified, of the total gross assets of the transferor determined as of the time of the merger or consolidation. Provides that the successor corporation would not have any responsibility for successor asbestos-related liabilities in excess of this limitation.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SB 1691 (Lowenthal-D) Mechanics liens: omnibus bill
Reorganizes and restates statutory mechanics lien law in order to improve its clarity and usability.
Vetoed

SB 1766 (McClintock-R) Disability: access
Requires a person with a disability, prior to filing a complaint based on violations of the state's full and equal access laws, to first notify the owner or manager of a housing or public accommodation of the violations via certified letter that clearly identifies the access problems, and to wait until the end of six months after the owner or business received the letter before commencing a lawsuit.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

SCA 1 (McClintock-R) Eminent domain
Provides that private property may be taken, or damaged, only for a stated public use, and not without the consent of the owner for purposes of economic development, increasing tax revenue, or any other private use, nor for maintaining the present use by a different owner. Requires that property acquired in eminent domain be owned and occupied by the condemner, except as specified, and be used only for the public use stated at the time of the taking. Provides that if the property ceases to be used for the state public use, the former owner would have the right to reacquire the property for its fair market value.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 164 (Smyth-R) Immunity: marriage and family therapy schools
Provides a qualified immunity to a person who communicates to a marriage and family therapy school information intended to aid in the evaluation of another persons qualifications, fitness, character, or insurability as a healing arts practitioner.
Chapter 23, Statutes of 2008

AB 171 (Beall-D) Uniform civil fees: estates and trusts
Eliminates the graduated uniform civil filing fee for petitions or accounts filed in connection with the administration of an estate or trust. Establishes a single uniform $320 filing fee.
Chapter 310, Statutes of 2008

AB 229 (Strickland-R) Ethics in government
Provides that a special motion to strike, pursuant to California's anti-SLAPP Strategic (Lawsuits Against Public Participation) law, shall not apply to a cause of action brought to enjoin violations of, or to compel compliance with specified provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)

AB 250 (DeVore-R) Nonprobate transfers
Creates two new nonprobate property transfer instruments, the "Simple Revocable Transfer on Death Deed" and the "Revocable Transfer On Death Deed With Life Estate," which would be effective upon death of the transferor.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 316 (Spitzer-R) Guardianships and conservatorships: investments
Revises and expands the list of specified obligations and securities in which a guardian or conservator may invest funds of the estate without court authorization. Authorizes guardians and conservators to use covered call options and put options on long positions for securities held in the guardianship or conservatorship estate, after establishing a strategy of risk mitigation. Provides that, except where otherwise permitted, the guardian or conservator may make investments with income and assets of the estate or the ward or conservator only after court authorization. Establishes standards for the management of those investments.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 429 (Evans-D) Lodging: privacy
Provides that an innkeeper shall not be required to produce information from a guest registry, except upon the request of a peace officer investigating a criminal offense who has a reasonable suspicion that the registry contains the identity of a person relevant to the investigation, and permits a peace officer to seize a guest registry only if there is probable cause for the peace officer to believe that the registry contains the identity of a person relevant to the investigation.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)

AB 437 (Jones-D) Statutes of limitation: employment discrimination
Clarifies and preserves existing law regarding when an unlawful act occurs for the purpose of triggering the limitations period. Establishes that the Legislature rejects the interpretation given to federal law by the United States Supreme Court in Ledbetter which had the effect of limiting worker's abilities to bring pay discrimination claims.
Vetoed

AB 481 (Tran-R) Unlawful detainer: pleadings
Provides that a tenant in an unlawful detainer action who makes an affirmative defense of breach of warranty of habitability be required to provide information describing the nature of the breach and other information not currently required in the responsive pleadings. Provides the amount-in-controversy threshold, beneath which a defendant may file a brief written statement in lieu of a formal answer to a complaint, be raised from $1,000 to $42,500.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 512 (Lieber-D) Contracts: translation
Expands the current foreign language translation requirements for specified contracts to include residential real estate mortgages, permits the use of a summary document translated in one of five languages, and requires the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to develop the summary form.
(Died in Senate Banking, Finance and Insurance Committee)

AB 541 (Huffman-D) Liability: genetically engineered plants
Establishes sampling and analysis protocols when determining if there is a breach of contract or seed patent infringement of genetically engineered plants and specifies that farmers are not liable for unintended or de minimis breaches of contract or seed patent infringements.
Chapter 424, Statutes of 2008

AB 698 (Strickland-R) Defamation: agricultural products
Creates a new ground for lawsuits regarding agricultural products.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 926 (Evans-D) Civil discovery
Establishes procedures in the Civil Discovery Act for a person to obtain discovery of electronically stored information, as defined, in addition to documents, tangible things, and land or other property, in the possession of any other party to the action.
Vetoed

AB 1340 (Jones-D) Guardians and conservators: accountings
Makes minor changes to the Provisions of the Omnibus Conservatorship and Guardianship Reform Act of 2006 related to accountings: (1) clarifies that, for the first account, nonprofessional guardians and conservators are only required to provide bank account statements as of the date preceding the appointment and account statements as of the closing date of the accounting period, (2) clarifies that courts may, by local rule, require the return of supporting documents submitted to the court with the accountings, including original bank statements and escrow statements, to the depositing guardian or conservator when the accounting becomes final, and (3) clarifies that the time for giving notice of the hearing on a petition for temporary conservatorship is five court days, rather than five calendar days.
Chapter 293, Statutes of 2008

AB 1356 (Houston-R) Real property: equity purchasers
Permits a licensed representative of an "equity purchaser" to demonstrate financial responsibility by either surety bond or professional liability coverage.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1361 (Karnette-D) Political Reform Act of 1974
Provides that in exercising its discretion to set the amount of a judgment in a civil action brought by the civil prosecutor, including the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), or a person residing within the jurisdiction, the court must take into consideration any rules and regulations of the FPPC applicable to similar violations.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 1505 (Parra-D) Joinder: representative actions
Substantially rewrites rules regarding certification and administration of class action lawsuits.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1549 (Aghazarian-R) Civil actions: product liability
Provides that action for death or injury caused by a defective product must be brought within 10 years from the date of first sale, lease, or delivery for use or consumption to the initial consumer.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1656 (Jones-D) Personal information: security breaches
Prohibits specified entities that sell goods or services from storing or failing to limit access to payment related information unless a specified exception applies.
Vetoed
A similar bill was AB 1779 (Jones-D) which died in Senate Judiciary Committee.

AB 1866 (Mendoza-D) Retail service contracts
Requires retailers that sell service contracts to do one of the following during the period that the service contract is in effect: (1) maintain contract information that includes a description of the terms and conditions of the service contract and provide that information to the purchaser upon request, or (2) obtain a copy of the service contract and provide that copy to the requester within 10 business days after receiving the request.
Vetoed

AB 1868* (Walters-R) Charter schools: government tort claims
Requires the California Law Revision Commission to submit a report to the Legislature, on or before 3/1/09, that includes a general description of the policy purposes served by the governmental tort liability provisions in existing law, and a general discussion of the possible consequences of adding charter schools to the list of public agencies covered by those provisions and whether charter schools possess the characteristics of a public entity that are relevant to those policy purposes.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 1880* (Tran-R) Guardians and conservators: bonds
Requires guardian or conservator to post a separate recovery bond for the benefit of the ward or conservatee and any person interested in the guardianship or conservatorship estate who may bring a surcharge action against the guardian or conservator for breach of his/her duty.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1891 (Niello-R) Civil procedure: sanctions
Revises the standards by which conduct during and outside of civil litigation is subject to penalty, as well as the scope of conduct that is subject to sanction, and the types of penalties that are to be imposed.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1903* (Hernandez-D) Liability: flood control and water conservation facilities
Revises and extends until 1/1/13, the conditional immunity from liability previously granted to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works and its employees, for injuries caused by the condition or use of unlined flood control channels or adjacent groundwater recharge spreading grounds. (The previous grant of conditional immunity expired 1/1/07.)
Chapter 633, Statutes of 2008

AB 1905 (Adams-R) Appeals: class action certification
Establish a new rule allowing a right of immediate appeal from procedural determinations regarding class certification.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 1946 (Nava-D) Hazardous materials: statute of limitations
Extends the statute of limitations from one year to five years for specified violations of hazardous material release response plans and allows district attorneys, upon request of the State Water Resources Control Board or a regional water quality control board, to petition the superior court to recover civil penalties for violations of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
Vetoed

AB 2014 (Tran-R) Conservators and guardians: foreign jurisdictions
Defines the estate of a conservatee or ward to include all personal property, wherever situated, and all real property located in this state owned by the conservatee or ward.
Chapter 52, Statutes of 2008

AB 2020 (Fuentes-D) Residential property contracts: liquidated damages
Commencing 7/1/09, and until 7/1/14, increases the amount of presumptively proper liquidated damages in a contract to purchase a newly constructed attached condominium unit, as described, from 3% to 6%. Provides for the annual adjustment of that minimum purchase price.
Chapter 665, Statutes of 2008

AB 2025 (Silva-R) Commercial real property: termination of tenancy
Increases the monetary threshold amount for determining whether a commercial landlord must dispose of a departed tenants unclaimed property via a public sale, or dispose of the property themselves, from $300 to the lesser of $750, or $1 per square foot of the premises occupied by the commercial tenant.
Chapter 161, Statutes of 2008

AB 2052* (Lieu-D) Residential tenancies: domestic violence
Authorizes a tenant to notify the landlord in writing that he/she or a household member, as defined, was a victim of an act of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, as defined, and intends to terminate the tenancy.
Chapter 440, Statutes of 2008

AB 2193 (Tran-R) Civil discovery: out-of-state proceedings
Establishes the Interstate and International Depositions and Discovery Act which clarifies and refines the procedure for obtaining discovery from a witness in this state for the purpose of a case pending in an out-of-state jurisdiction.
Chapter 231, Statutes of 2008

AB 2204 (De La Torre-D) Real property: discriminatory restrictions
Provides for numerous requirements on county officials when recording a deed or other instrument transferring title to residential property constructed prior to 1964.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2221 (Wolk-D) Unclaimed property: escheat: investments
Increases the dormancy period for contents of safe-deposit boxes from three to five years before the contents escheat to the state, and increases notification requirements for holders of unclaimed property.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 2247 (Spitzer-R) Guardianships and conservatorships
Provides that, except if otherwise permitted, the guardian or conservator may make investments with income and assets of the estate or the ward or conservator only after court authorization.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2248 (Spitzer-R) Wills: requirements
Requires a witness to a will to sign the will within the testators lifetime. Allows a printed will that fails to meet current statutory requirements to be probated if the proponent of the will establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the testator, at the time he/she signed the will, intended the will be his/her will.
Chapter 53, Statutes of 2008

AB 2279 (Leno-D) Medical marijuana: qualified patients
Prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of a person's status as a qualified patient (medical marijuana user), or on the basis of the person's positive drug test for marijuana, provided the person is a qualified patient and the medical use of marijuana does not occur at the place of employment or during hours of employment. Provides for an exception to the prohibition. Creates, for a person who has suffered discrimination as described above, a civil action for damages, injunctive relief, and any other appropriate equitable relief to protect the peaceable exercise of the right or rights secured. Contains an exception clause.
Vetoed

AB 2299 (Silva-R) Maintenance of the codes
Revises references to recording technologies in order to reflect current uses of those devices as well as the potential development of future technologies. Corrects erroneous cross-references and revises statutes made obsolete by subsequent legislative acts.
Vetoed

AB 2304 (Plescia-R) Name changes
Requires courts to keep confidential the current legal name of the petitioner and prohibits the court from publishing that name by any means or in any public forum when the petition for name change is by a participant in the address confidentiality program. Authorizes a petitioner to request that the records be sealed and requires the Judicial Council to develop, on or before 1/1/10, rules of court and forms for that purpose.
Chapter 586, Statutes of 2008

AB 2343 (Caballero-D) Public guardians: public administrators and conservators
Requires public administrators and public conservators to complete the same continuing education requirements required of public guardians under the Omnibus Conservatorship and Guardianship Reform Act, by 7/1/10. Establishes rules for the appointment of Public Administrators as successor trustees.
Chapter 237, Statutes of 2008

AB 2352 (Fuentes-D) Health services: confidential information
Permits confidential records obtained in the course of providing mental health or developmental disability services to be released to a county social worker, a probation officer, or any other person who is legally authorized to have custody or care of a minor.
Chapter 700, Statutes of 2008

AB 2433 (Krekorian-D) Civil discovery: subpoenas
Gives a person who has used an Internet service provider or other interactive computer service standing to move to quash a subpoena served on the person or the provider requesting the person's personally identifying information, as defined, for use in a pending out-of-state action, and requires the court to award reasonable expenses, including attorney's fees to a prevailing moving party.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2008

AB 2533 (Keene-R) Civil remedies: disability access
Requires that, before filing a complaint claiming the inability to access specified facilities, a person deliver a notice to the person, firm, or corporation who is alleged to have denied or interfered with a right of access guaranteed under the above provisions. Requires that the notice specify the physical conditions that are alleged to deny or interfere with such a right of access.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2616 (DeVore-R) Free speech
Provides that any person shall be entitled to gather signatures for any state or local initiative, referendum, or recall petition consistent with the provisions of California law in the apron and perimeter areas of a retail establishment that is open to the public, as long as the use of those areas does not unduly compromise public safety or unreasonably impede free access to the retail establishment, any public sidewalk, any entrance to the retail establishment, or a privately owned parking area of the retail establishment.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2619 (Charles Calderon-D) Civil actions: witnesses
Makes technical, nonsubstantive amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure in order to correct two erroneous cross references in the Code of Civil Procedure with respect to expert witness depositions.
Chapter 303, Statutes of 2008

AB 2624 (Strickland-R) Ethics in government
Amends the Political Reform Act of 1974 relative to an action brought to sue for injunctive relief.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2642 (Niello-R) Unclaimed property
Provides that when an owner of an account or other intangible property has not received a tax report or regular statement of the account or intangible property for a period of three years, the account or other intangible property is inactive and escheats to the state. Creates a presumption that a tax report or regular statement of an account or other intangible property that was mailed first class to the owner of the account or intangible property by the holder of the property and that was not returned was received by the owner of the property.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 2654 (Laird-D) Discrimination
Updates various provisions in different codes dealing with discrimination in contracting, insurance, workers compensation, court-appointed child advocacy, and prepaid health plans to ensure that proper reference is made to the classes protected under the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Section 51 of the Civil Code), or to Section 11135 of the Government Code which prohibits discrimination in state-funded programs and activities based on race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, sex (including gender identity), marital status, and sexual orientation, or to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (Section 12926.1 of the Governmental Codes.)
Chapter 682, Statutes of 2008

AB 2683 (Houston-R) Title insurance: mechanics' liens
Regulates the provision of title insurance policies for certain new residential property.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

AB 2690 (Krekorian-D) Product liability actions: pharmaceutical products
Declares that a manufacturer of a prescription pharmaceutical product that advertises directly to consumers shall not be relieved of a duty to warn customers of risks and side effects of the product solely because the product was prescribed to a patient by a physician.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)

AB 2738 (Jones-D) Indemnification: construction contracts
Provides for and specifies the application of "wrap-up" insurance policies in the context of residential construction projects and their relationship to indemnification and defense obligations in residential construction projects.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2008

AB 2780 (Lieu-D) Damages: lost profits
Provides that a public entity is not liable for damages for lost profits if the breach of contract is due to the enactment of a valid initiative. Specifies that its provisions are fully retroactive and apply to contracts entered into before, on, or after its effective date, and to causes of action that accrued prior to its effective date.
(Died on Assembly Floor)

AB 2801 (Carter-D) Conflict of interest: settlements
Expands the definition of "remote interest" in existing conflict of interest provisions so as to permit certain settlement agreements in which a public official has an interest.
Chapter 163, Statutes of 2008

AB 2849 (Evans-D) Civil actions: bees: damages
Provides for the damages that are recoverable by a plaintiff in a civil action for the wrongful taking, possessing, harboring, or transporting of a beehive, for the wrongful removal of bees from their beehive, or the wrongful killing or destroying of bees.
Vetoed

AB 2874 (Lieber-D) Civil rights: cap on damages
Deletes the $150,000 cap on actual damages that may be awarded to a complainant by the Fair Employment and Housing Commission against a respondent who violates Section 51.7 of the Civil Code, which guarantees all persons within the state the right to be free from violence or intimidation by threat of violence because of their disability, medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, marital status, ancestry, national origin, political affiliation, position in a labor dispute, or because another person perceives them to have one or more of those characteristics.
Vetoed

AB 2878 (Anderson-R) Enforcement of judgments: homesteads exemptions
Increases each of the current homestead exemptions as follows: (1) $50,000 to $75,000 for the base exemption that applies if no other exemption applies, (2) $75,000 to $100,000 for family units, and (3) $150,000 to $175,000 for those age 65 or older, disabled, or age 55 or older with limited income, as specified.
Vetoed

AB 2881 (Wolk-D) Nuisance: agricultural activity
Requires disclosure, upon certain property transfers, of nearby agricultural activity.
Chapter 686, Statutes of 2008

AB 2949 (DeSaulnier-D) Involuntary deposits: abandoned pets
Requires a person who discovers an abandoned animal within a foreclosed-upon home to contact animal control for the purpose of retrieval and care.
Chapter 265, Statutes of 2008

AB 3004 (Duvall-R) Vehicle: liens
Provides that a vehicle lien is extinguished if requested documents are not provided to the legal owner of the vehicle by the lienholder.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)

AB 3013 (Levine-D) Judgment liens
Establishes a process for the continuation of a judgment lien on personal property, so that a creditor will not have to file a new lien at the end of five years.
Vetoed

ACA 2 (Walters-R) Eminent domain
Proposes to place before the voters of California a constitutional amendment which prohibits the use of eminent domain for purposes of economic development, increasing tax revenue, or private use. Makes other changes relative to offers of just compensation and a property owner's right to repurchase.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)

ACA 8 (De La Torre-D) Eminent domain
Proposes to place before the voters a constitutional amendment that prohibits or limits the use of eminent domain under certain circumstances.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)

AJR 60 (Evans-D) Speech: Shield law for journalists
Urges the United States Congress to enact a shield law for American's journalists, the Free Flow of Information Act.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2008

Index (in bill order)
Bill	Author and Bill Title	Reference Links
SB 3	Harman-R Trespass: illegal immigrants	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 11	Migden-D Domestic partnerships	Family Law
SB 29	Simitian-D Pupil attendance: electronic monitoring	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 30	Simitian-D Identity Information Protection Act of 2007	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 31	Simitian-D Identification documents	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 110	Romero-D Sentencing commission	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 122	Steinberg-D Hate crimes: homelessness	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 126	Harman-R Child abuse and neglect	Child Abuse
SB 128	Margett-R State claims: Dept. of the California Highway Patrol	Law Enforcement
SB 129	Kuehl-D Criminal communications	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 150	Florez-D Governmental liability: railroad quiet zones	Civil Law
SB 154	Cedillo-D Workers' compensation: public safety	Law Enforcement
SB 177	Migden-D DUI: ignition interlock	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 194	Battin-R Sex offenses: Internet	Sex Offenders
SB 208	Runner-R Correctional treatment center license fees	Corrections
SB 216	Cox-R Judgments: social security numbers	Civil Law
SB 222	Cogdill-R Public records: personal information	Sex Offenders
SB 228*	Denham-R Decommissioning San Quentin State Prison	Corrections
SB 256	Alquist-D Statutes of limitations	Sex Offenders
SB 265	Romero-D Juvenile justice	Juvenile Justice
SB 315	Cogdill-R Criminal procedure: appeals: capital cases	Procedural
SB 327	Migden-D Firearms	Weapons
SB 328	Corbett-D Personal information: prohibited practices	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 331*	Romero-D Trespass on tribal lands	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 346	Dutton-R Liens and encumbrances	Civil Law
SB 364	Simitian-D Personal information: privacy	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 368	Harman-R Distribution of child pornography on the Internet	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 371	Yee-D Nonresidential tenancy: deposit	Civil Law
SB 388	Corbett-D Privacy: radio frequency identification tags	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 390	Runner-R Gang Activity Prevention Grant Program	Juvenile Justice
SB 409	Ashburn-R Parole	Corrections
SB 423	Harman-R Exemplary damages	Civil Law
SB 432	Lowenthal-D Omnibus clean-up bill	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 447	Maldonado-R Junk dealers	Law Enforcement
SB 454*	Harman-R Estates and trusts: taxation: exemption	Civil Law
SB 459	Florez-D Public cemetery districts: interment rights	Civil Law
SB 476	Hollingsworth-R Vehicle: manslaughter	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 477	Hollingsworth-R Burglary: intent to commit assault	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 479	Hollingsworth-R Impersonating a peace officer to commit a sex act	Sex Offenders Law Enforcement
SB 481	Runner-R Loan assumption program for licensed attorneys	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 492	Maldonado-R Vehicle abandonment	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 495*	Denham-R California Agricultural Crime Prevention Program	Law Enforcement
SB 498	Oropeza-D Saltwater-damaged vehicles	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 501	Hollingsworth-R Registered sex offenders	Sex Offenders
SB 502	Hollingsworth-R Sexually violent predators: GPS	Sex Offenders
SB 503	Hollingsworth-R Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
SB 514	Dutton-R Sexual contact: murder	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 547	Correa-D Criminal justice facilities: property tax revenues	Corrections
SB 550	Ashburn-R Gangs: safe school zones	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 571	Yee-D Organized retail crime	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 590	Battin-R Child sexual exploitation: Internet	Sex Offenders Law Enforcement
SB 591	Cogdill-R Methamphetamine possession	Controlled Substances
SB 592	Cogdill-R Methamphetamine: liability	Controlled Substances
SB 604	Cox-R Prisoners: local cost reimbursements	Corrections
SB 605	Alquist-D Santa Clara County: domestic violence	Domestic Violence
SB 608	Wiggins-D Judges' Retirement System	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 610	Corbett-D Criminal proceedings: commencement	Procedural
SB 612	Simitian-D Crime	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 628	Correa-D Controlled substances	Controlled Substances
SB 636	Harman-R Death penalty appeals: appointment of counsel	Death Penalty
SB 640	Simitian-D Government tort claims: childhood sexual abuse	Sex Offenders
SB 653	Calderon-D False or misleading information: penalties	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 657	Runner-R Crime	Law Enforcement
SB 685	Yee-D Pet trusts	Civil Law
SB 691*	Calderon-D Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous material	Law Enforcement
SB 692	Ashburn-R In-home supportive services: criminal background checks	Law Enforcement
SB 694*	Ashburn-R Child support obligations	Family Law
SB 712	Cogdill-R Theft detection shielding devices	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 722	Correa-D Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor	Law Enforcement
SB 726	Alquist-D Public safety professionals: workers' compensation	Law Enforcement
SB 731	Oropeza-D Massage therapy: criminal background check	Law Enforcement
SB 738	Calderon-D Works of improvement	Civil Law
SB 741	Ackerman-R Pupils: identifying information	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 747	Corbett-D Persons with disabilities: equal access rights	Civil Law
SB 751	Cogdill-R Identity theft	Privacy/Identity Theft
SB 787	Battin-R Crimes: computers	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 798	Battin-R State Aeronautics Act: criminal background checks	Law Enforcement
SB 800	Corbett-D Conservatorship and guardianship	Civil Law
SB 804	Hollingsworth-R Business establishments: unlawful entry	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 844	Calderon-D Crime: school zones	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 846	Harman-R Criminal street gangs: registration	Law Enforcement
SB 848	Corbett-D Vehicle speed traps	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 860	Correa-D Remote stun guns	Weapons Law Enforcement
SB 864	Battin-R Gaming: charitable bingo: penalties	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 878	Cox-R Prison construction costs: mitigation	Corrections
SB 882	Harman-R Teacher credentialing: criminal history: fingerprints	Law Enforcement
SB 889	Maldonado-R Vehicles	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 913	Hollingsworth-R Sex offenders: group homes	Sex Offenders
SB 914	Hollingsworth-R Community care facilities: housing sex offenders	Sex Offenders
SB 915	Hollingsworth-R Group homes housing sex offenders: zoning	Sex Offenders
SB 919	Machado-D Unclaimed property	Civil Law
SB 968	Simitian-D Contracts	Civil Law
SB 987*	Romero-D State correctional system	Corrections
SB 989	Ridley-Thomas-D Criminal street gangs	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 992	Wiggins-D Substance abuse	Controlled Substances
SB 999	Yee-D Crime	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1019	Romero-D Peace officer records: confidentiality	Law Enforcement
SB 1022	Steinberg-D Child abuse: central index	Child Abuse
SB 1033*	Runner-R Undetectable knives	Weapons
SB 1066	Migden-D Domestic partnerships	Family Law
SB 1068*	Ducheny-D Budget Act of 2007: augmentation: judges	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 1071*	Ducheny-D Prisons: medical care receiver	Corrections
SB 1092*	Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Prison construction: Medical Care Receiver	Corrections
SB 1098	Migden-D Medical marijuana	Controlled Substances
SB 1105	Margett-R Teacher credentialing: criminal convictions	Sex Offenders
SB 1113	Migden-D Attorney's fee and costs	Civil Law
SB 1116	Alquist-D High Technology Crime Advisory Committee	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1126*	Cedillo-D Criminal street gangs: nuisances: damages	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1130	Battin-R Registration of arsonists	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1140	Steinberg-D Financial abuse of elder or dependent adults	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1147	Calderon-D Medi-Cal: eligibility: juvenile offenders	Juvenile Justice
SB 1148	Cedillo-D Dependent children: emancipation	Juvenile Justice
SB 1150	Corbett-D Courts: judgeships	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 1162	Maldonado-R Hard plastic knuckles	Weapons
SB 1163	Maldonado-R Sex offenders: vehicle license plates	Sex Offenders
SB 1164	Scott-D Limited peace officer authority: Department of Justice	Law Enforcement
SB 1169	Runner-R Inmates: health care services	Corrections
SB 1171	Scott-D Firearms: loaded firearm in vehicles	Weapons
SB 1177	Ridley-Thomas-D Dispute resolution: fees	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 1178	Aanestad-R Dentistry: registered sex offenders	Sex Offenders
SB 1182	Ackerman-R Trial courts: restructuring	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 1187	Battin-R Sex offenses: Internet: public information	Sex Offenders
SB 1190	Oropeza-D Ignition interlock devices	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 1196	Runner-R Local government: coroners	Law Enforcement
SB 1202	Harman-R Attorney's fees: class action	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law
SB 1203	Runner-R Crime: sex offenders	Sex Offenders
SB 1209	Maldonado-R Private security services	Law Enforcement
SB 1212	Cox-R Badges: retired peace officer and enforcement volunteers	Law Enforcement
SB 1232	Battin-R Crimes: computers	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1236	Padilla-D Fines and forfeitures	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1241	Margett-R Public safety omnibus bill	Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement
SB 1243	Correa-D Mentally disordered offenders: recommitment hearing	Sex Offenders
SB 1249	Calderon-D Crime Victims Trust Fund	Victims of Crime
SB 1250	Yee-D Juveniles: communication	Juvenile Justice
SB 1253	Alquist-D Sex offenders: assessments	Sex Offenders
SB 1255	Harman-R Child custody	Family Law
SB 1257	Machado-D Consumer rebates	Civil Law
SB 1259	Margett-R Crimes against elders and dependent adults	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1261	Cox-R Inmate and ward labor	Juvenile Justice Corrections
SB 1264	Harman-R Wills and trusts: no contest clauses	Civil Law
SB 1265	Ashburn-R Board of Parole Hearings	Corrections
SB 1266	Ashburn-R Board of Parole Hearings: videoconferencing	Corrections
SB 1282	Margett-R Private investigators: continuing education	Law Enforcement
SB 1302	Cogdill-R Sex offenders: sentencing provisions	Sex Offenders
SB 1305	Battin-R Murder: special circumstances: victims under 14 years of age	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1319	Machado-D Unclaimed property: escheat.	Civil Law
SB 1320	Dutton-R Death penalty: appeals	Death Penalty
SB 1325	Kuehl-D Vehicles: automated speed enforcement	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 1329	Harman-R Charitable institutions: dissolution	Civil Law
SB 1333	Ashburn-R Paternity judgment: reconsideration	Family Law
SB 1336	Cogdill-R California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System	Law Enforcement
SB 1339	Simitian-D Government tort claims: childhood sexual abuse	Child Abuse
SB 1342*	Cogdill-R Sentencing	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1343	Battin-R Witness testimony: support persons: elder abuse	Procedural
SB 1344	Battin-R Sentence enhancements: kidnapping	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1356	Yee-D Domestic violence: victim's testimony	Domestic Violence Civil Law
SB 1361	Correa-D Ignition interlock devices	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 1381	Ashburn-R County sheriffs: funding	Law Enforcement
SB 1382	Cogdill-R Death penalty: time of execution	Death Penalty
SB 1388	Torlakson-D Ignition interlock devices	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 1394	Lowenthal-D Lapses of consciousness: reports by physicians	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 1397	Negrete McLeod-D Prison Industry Authority: procurement	Corrections
SB 1407	Perata-D Court facilities: financing: fees	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 1421	Harman-R Trust administration	Civil Law
SB 1443	Oropeza-D Food facilities: donated food	Civil Law
SB 1449	Calderon-D Works of improvement: liens	Civil Law
SB 1451	Ashburn-R Wardens: Senate confirmation	Corrections
SB 1471	Runner-R Criminal procedure: motions	Procedural
SB 1498	Senate Judiciary Committee Maintenance of the codes	Civil Law
SB 1509	Lowenthal-D Assault and battery: Department of Transportation workers	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1523	Kuehl-D Domestic violence: information	Domestic Violence
SB 1528	Wyland-R Prenuptial agreements	Family Law
SB 1531	Correa-D Law enforcement training: autism spectrum disorder	Law Enforcement
SB 1545	Romero-D Juvenile court schools	Juvenile Justice
SB 1546*	Runner-R Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
SB 1554	Dutton-R Burglary tools: bump keys	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1555	Kuehl-D Older prisoners	Corrections
SB 1566	Ashburn-R Criminal procedure: pleas: aliens: advisement	Procedural
SB 1567	Oropeza-D Windshield: global positioning systems	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 1589	Romero-D Criminal procedure: informants	Procedural
SB 1590	Alquist-D Interrogation: recording	Procedural Law Enforcement
SB 1591	Ridley-Thomas-D Criminal investigations: eyewitnesses	Law Enforcement
SB 1608	Corbett-D Disabled persons: equal access: civil action	Civil Law
SB 1612	Kuehl-D Guardian ad litem	Civil Law
SB 1615	Florez-D Attorney General: designations	Law Enforcement
SB 1630	Corbett-D Civil actions: place of trial	Civil Law
SB 1638	Alquist-D Juvenile court schools	Juvenile Justice
SB 1649	Steinberg-D Human trafficking	Civil Law
SB 1651	Steinberg-D Mentally ill offenders	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 1665*	Machado-D Prison Health Care Construction Program	Corrections
SB 1666	Calderon-D Crimes committed in school zones	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1667	Calderon-D Civil actions: asbestos	Civil Law
SB 1684	Machado-D California Rehabilitation Oversight Board: reports	Corrections
SB 1691	Lowenthal-D Mechanics liens: omnibus bill	Civil Law
SB 1701	Romero-D Sentencing	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1705*	Runner-R Correctional facilities	Corrections
SB 1726	Scott-D Adoption	Family Law
SB 1730	Padilla-D State correctional facilities: metal detection screening	Corrections
SB 1751	Runner-R Vehicles: theft	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 1766	McClintock-R Disability: access	Civil Law
SB 1770	Padilla-D Anti-reproductive-rights crime	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 1775	Calderon-D Dogfighting: forfeitures	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SCA 1	McClintock-R Eminent domain	Civil Law
SCR 53	Denham-R CHP Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SCR 56	Correa-D California Peace Officers' Memorial Day	Law Enforcement
SCR 57	Maldonado-R CHP Officer Loren D. Scruggs Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
SCR 81	Battin-R Child Abuse Prevention Month	Child Abuse
SCR 106	Romero-D Denim Day	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SCR 119	Dutton-R The CHP Officer John Bailey Memorial Freeway	Law Enforcement
SCR 132	Perata-D CHP Officer Brent William Clearman Memorial Freeway	Law Enforcement
SJR 12	Simitian-D Elder abuse awareness stamp	Other Crimes and Sentencing
SJR 20	Migden-D Medical marijuana	Controlled Substances
SJR 33	Dutton-R National Institute of Corrections	Corrections
AB 20	Eng-D Intergroup relations	Law Enforcement
AB 24	Richardson-D Vehicles: police pursuit	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Law Enforcement
AB 36	Niello-R Public employees' retirement: fraud	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 38	Nava-D Homeland security	Law Enforcement
AB 39	Benoit-R Undocumented criminal aliens: costs of incarceration	Corrections
AB 42	Sharon Runner-R Grand theft: subsidized housing	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 58	Soto-D Shock pens	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 60	Nava-D Vehicles: bicycles	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 77	Lieber-D Parole reform	Corrections
AB 79	Galgiani-D Parole	Corrections
AB 88*	Assembly Budget Committee 2008 Supplemental Budget Bill: Corrections	Corrections Law Enforcement
AB 95	Beall-D Domestic violence: probation: treatment programs	Domestic Violence
AB 115	Horton-R Sex offenders: registration	Sex Offenders
AB 116	Aghazarian-R Child abuse: endangerment: controlled substances	Child Abuse Controlled Substances
AB 128	Dymally-D Pupils: Gang Violence Mitigation Pilot Programs	Law Enforcement
AB 129	Emmerson-R Imitation firearms	Weapons
AB 148	Lieber-D Female offenders: dental care	Corrections
AB 160	Lieber-D California Sentencing Commission	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 161	Bass-D Anti-recidivism grants	Corrections
AB 164	Smyth-R Immunity: marriage and family therapy schools	Civil Law
AB 171	Beall-D Uniform civil fees: estates and trusts	Civil Law
AB 186*	Maze-R Rural crime prevention	Law Enforcement
AB 189	Dymally-D Collaborative law	Family Law
AB 225	Beall-D Elder and dependent adults: protective orders	Procedural
AB 226	Huff-R Vehicles: removal	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 228	Strickland-R Battery	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 229	Strickland-R Ethics in government	Civil Law
AB 235	Tran-R Statute of limitations: child pornography	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 247	Gaines-R Minors: fitness hearing: vehicular manslaughter	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Juvenile Justice
AB 248	Gaines-R Vehicles: violations: punishment	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 250	DeVore-R Nonprobate transfers	Civil Law
AB 259	Adams-R Controlled substances: Schedule I	Controlled Substances
AB 268*	Assembly Budget Committee California Highway Patrol	Law Enforcement
AB 278	Huff-R Controlled substances	Controlled Substances
AB 279	Huff-R Unlawful demonstrations: military funerals	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 301	Soto-D Criminal street gangs: statewide prevention	Law Enforcement
AB 303	Spitzer-R Manslaughter: vehicular	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 312	Dymally-D Dependent children: reunification services	Juvenile Justice
AB 316	Spitzer-R Guardianships and conservatorships: investments	Civil Law
AB 318	Silva-R Controlled substances	Controlled Substances
AB 325	Nava-D Peace officers: recruitment	Law Enforcement
AB 336	Dymally-D Substance abuse	Controlled Substances
AB 337	Dymally-D Cocaine penalties	Controlled Substances
AB 348	Garcia-R Sex offenses: enforcement teams	Sex Offenders
AB 352	Solorio-D Imitation firearms	Weapons
AB 360	Carter-D Juvenile court law: purpose	Juvenile Justice
AB 362	De Leon-D Ammunition	Weapons
AB 370	Adams-R Sex offenders: residency restrictions	Sex Offenders
AB 375	Garcia-R Domestic violence: probation	Domestic Violence
AB 376	Nava-D Airport police officers: retirement	Law Enforcement
AB 378	Benoit-R Elder and dependent adult abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 379	Galgiani-D Crimes: children	Sex Offenders
AB 386	Benoit-R Sexually violent predator proceedings: release notification	Sex Offenders
AB 395	Swanson-D Child abduction	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 406	Galgiani-D Homicide trial costs: Merced County	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 407	Swanson-D Probation Youth Success Act	Juvenile Justice
AB 416	Garcia-R Arson registry	Law Enforcement
AB 419	Lieber-D Safety employees: workers' compensation	Law Enforcement
AB 425	Adams-R Motorcycles: helmets	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 426	Galgiani-D Serious and violent felonies	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 429	Evans-D Lodging: privacy	Civil Law
AB 437	Jones-D Statutes of limitation: employment discrimination	Civil Law
AB 439	Ma-D Inmate Welfare Fund	Corrections
AB 440	Parra-D Sex offender data	Sex Offenders Law Enforcement
AB 441	Parra-D Methamphetamine	Controlled Substances
AB 442	Parra-D Sex offenses	Sex Offenders
AB 457	Cook-R Corrections: investigations	Corrections
AB 458	Cook-R Costs of incarceration: undocumented criminal aliens	Corrections
AB 459	Cook-R In-home supportive services: criminal background checks	Law Enforcement
AB 476	De La Torre-D Crimes: fireworks law	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 481	Tran-R Unlawful detainer: pleadings	Civil Law
AB 487	Garcia-R Parole: sex offenders: specialized supervision	Sex Offenders
AB 496	Villines-R Controlled substances: forfeiture	Controlled Substances
AB 499	Swanson-D Commercially sexually exploited minors	Child Abuse
AB 512	Lieber-D Contracts: translation	Civil Law
AB 525	De Leon-D Homeland security: training center	Law Enforcement
AB 528	Aghazarian-R Graffiti prevention: "Tag, You're It" Act of 2007	Law Enforcement
AB 534	Smyth-R Crimes against children	Child Abuse
AB 541	Huffman-D Liability: genetically engineered plants	Civil Law
AB 545*	Walters-R Judges' retirement	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 565	Berryhill-R Arson: registration	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 582	Evans-D Adoption facilitators	Family Law
AB 589	Levine-D Pupils: teen dating violence and sexual violence prevention	Sex Offenders Law Enforcement
AB 601	Arambula-D Sex offenders	Sex Offenders
AB 602	DeVore-R Parking violations: hearings	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 605	Walters-R Speed contest: forfeiture of vehicle	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 612	Ruskin-D Child custody evaluations	Family Law
AB 621	Smyth-R Reserve peace officers: universities	Law Enforcement
AB 635	Duvall-R Peace officers: circumstance in aggravation	Law Enforcement
AB 664	Parra-D Prison Industry Authority: dairy products	Corrections
AB 667	Smyth-R Law enforcement animals	Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement
AB 676	Tran-R Serious felonies: penalty enhancement	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 692	Mullin-D Attorneys: referral services	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 698	Strickland-R Defamation: agricultural products	Civil Law
AB 703	Ruskin-D Social security numbers	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 716	DeVore-R Prison design plans	Corrections
AB 717	Fuller-R Victim Compensation Fund	Victims of Crime
AB 718	Fuller-R Sex offenses: statutes of limitations	Sex Offenders
AB 732	DeVore-R Crimes: punishment	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 737	Keene-R Small claims court jurisdiction	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 743	Solorio-D School security officers	Law Enforcement
AB 755	Lieber-D Corporal punishment	Child Abuse
AB 777	Levine-D Animal cruelty: elephants	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 780	Silva-R Attempted murder	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 787	Soto-D Crime: weapons	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 788	Niello-R Code enforcement officers: battery	Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement
AB 790	Karnette-D State Penalty Fund: Witness Protection Program	Law Enforcement
AB 791	Jeffries-R Public Safety Agency	Law Enforcement
AB 802	Salas-D Criminal street gangs	Law Enforcement
AB 803	Strickland-R Statute of limitations: sex crimes	Sex Offenders
AB 814	Hayashi-D Consumer Sales Security Act	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 824	Saldana-D Inmate work camps	Corrections
AB 837	Feuer-D Firearms: prohibited persons	Weapons
AB 844*	Berryhill-R Junk dealers and recyclers: nonferrous material	Law Enforcement
AB 849	Nakanishi-R Public safety training facilities	Law Enforcement
AB 858*	Spitzer-R Crime victim trusts	Victims of Crime
AB 863	Davis-D Los Angeles County Superior Court employees	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 890	Aghazarian-R Correctional Peace Officer Standards and Training	Corrections Law Enforcement
AB 893	Walters-R Vehicles: speeding	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 894	Nakanishi-R Criminal street gangs	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 907	Strickland-R Criminal history records: child welfare proceedings	Law Enforcement
AB 919	Houston-R Electronic communication devices: threats to safety	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 926	Evans-D Civil discovery	Civil Law
AB 931	Ruskin-D Community corrections	Corrections
AB 985	Saldana-D Environment: judicial review	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 988	Charles Calderon-D Federal homeland security grant funds	Law Enforcement
AB 996	Spitzer-R Department of Motor Vehicles: records	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 998	Garrick-R Theft: motor vehicle: penalties	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1007	Maze-R Parent education programs	Family Law
AB 1029	Caballero-D Prisons: inmate education	Corrections
AB 1033	Caballero-D Contributing to the delinquency of a minor: gang activity	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1035	La Malfa-R Crime	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1054	Mullin-D Autopsies: notification and consent	Law Enforcement
AB 1067	Cook-R Harmful matter	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1068	Cook-R Sex offenders: schools	Sex Offenders
AB 1069	Cook-R Abandoned property: vehicles and mobilehomes	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1081	Garrick-R Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: mutual aid	Corrections
AB 1082	Garrick-R Law enforcement	Law Enforcement
AB 1084	Galgiani-D Highway Patrol Officers: highway signs	Law Enforcement
AB 1093	Sharon Runner-R Bail: forfeiture	Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement
AB 1099	Portantino-D Traffic violator schools	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1105	Garrick-R Firearms	Weapons
AB 1110	Parra-D Dept. of Corrections & Rehab. Division of Juvenile Justice	Juvenile Justice
AB 1115	Sharon Runner-R Peace officers: accidents	Law Enforcement
AB 1121	Lieber-D Inmates	Corrections
AB 1125	Richardson-D Protective orders: domestic violence	Domestic Violence Victims of Crime Law Enforcement
AB 1133	Dymally-D Bail bonds: forfeiture	Procedural
AB 1141	Anderson-R Controlled substances: khat and cathinone	Controlled Substances
AB 1145	Huff-R Graffiti: forfeiture of vehicle	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1156	Levine-D Child support: satellite wagering winnings	Family Law
AB 1158	Benoit-R Witnesses: conditional examinations	Procedural
AB 1171	Sharon Runner-R Crimes: Necrophilia	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1176	Spitzer-R Sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders
AB 1189*	Solorio-D Prison health care construction	Corrections
AB 1191	Parra-D Sex offenses against children	Sex Offenders
AB 1197	Aghazarian-R Sex offenders: housing	Sex Offenders
AB 1198	Benoit-R Vehicles: driving under the influence: penalties	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Law Enforcement
AB 1200	Saldana-D Vehicles: hit-and-run: multiple convictions: penalties	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1202	Richardson-D Port security: bond funds	Law Enforcement
AB 1210	Horton-R Gang-related crimes: hearsay	Procedural
AB 1215	Benoit-R Vehicles: DUI	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1218	Duvall-R Antique firearms	Weapons
AB 1235	Fuller-R Sex offenders: Internet web site: GPS monitoring	Sex Offenders
AB 1275	DeSaulnier-D Domestic violence: child abuse: fees	Domestic Violence Child Abuse
AB 1278	Lieber-D Human trafficking	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1279*	Assembly Budget Committee 2008 Human Services Budget Trailer Bill: family law	Family Law
AB 1299	Fuller-R Child abuse review teams	Child Abuse
AB 1311	Berryhill-R DMV: records: confidentiality	Law Enforcement
AB 1332	Evans-D Adoption	Family Law
AB 1340	Jones-D Guardians and conservators: accountings	Civil Law
AB 1348	Spitzer-R Sexually violent predators: conditional release program	Sex Offenders
AB 1349	Galgiani-D Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation: San Joaquin County	Corrections
AB 1356	Houston-R Real property: equity purchasers	Civil Law
AB 1357	Parra-D Handgun safety certificates: exemptions	Weapons
AB 1361	Karnette-D Political Reform Act of 1974	Civil Law
AB 1372	Parra-D Theft: copper	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1385	Garrick-R Vehicles: DUI: penalties	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1388	Berryhill-R Probation	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1389*	Assembly Budget Committee 2008 General Gov't Budget Trailer Bill: Jessica's Law	Sex Offenders Law Enforcement
AB 1394	Krekorian-D Counterfeit: trademarks	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1405	Maze-R Juvenile law: confidential information	Juvenile Justice
AB 1416	Sharon Runner-R Child endangerment: driving under the influence	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1424	Davis-D Elder and dependent adult abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1475	Galgiani-D Mandatory child abuse reporting: computer technicians	Child Abuse
AB 1487	Berryhill-R Vehicles: driving under the influence	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1491*	Jones-D Court facilities	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1504	Anderson-R Juvenile court: dependent child	Privacy/Identity Theft Juvenile Justice
AB 1505	Parra-D Joinder: representative actions	Civil Law
AB 1547	Beall-D Juvenile court: termination of jurisdiction	Juvenile Justice
AB 1549	Aghazarian-R Civil actions: product liability	Civil Law
AB 1556	Horton-R Crimes: hazardous waste	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1557	Feuer-D Jury selection: peremptory challenges	Juries
AB 1569	Mendoza-D Court reporters: rough draft transcripts	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1582	Charles Calderon-D Marijuana: possession: penalty	Controlled Substances
AB 1584	Maze-R Crime: trespassing	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1587	De La Torre-D Personal information: pharmacy	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 1593	Blakeslee-R School volunteer aides: background checks	Law Enforcement
AB 1595	Lieber-D Terrorism prevention	Law Enforcement
AB 1597	Solorio-D Sheriffs' duties: coastline, harbors, and inland waterways	Law Enforcement
AB 1625	Solorio-D Crime prevention: criminal gangs	Law Enforcement
AB 1627	Sharon Runner-R Solicitation: controlled substance offenses	Controlled Substances
AB 1628	Sharon Runner-R Vandalism: punishment	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1629	Sharon Runner-R Parole	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1630	Sharon Runner-R Criminal street gangs: registration	Law Enforcement
AB 1631	Sharon Runner-R Sentencing: 10-20-life	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1648	Leno-D Domestic violence: domestic partners	Domestic Violence
AB 1655	Lieber-D Division of Juvenile Justice	Juvenile Justice
AB 1656	Jones-D Personal information: security breaches	Privacy/Identity Theft Civil Law
AB 1657	Sharon Runner-R Underage drinking	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1660	La Malfa-R Victims' rights: presence during criminal proceedings	Victims of Crime
AB 1679	Evans-D Paternity actions: records	Family Law
AB 1694	La Malfa-R Crime: lewd acts with a minor	Child Abuse
AB 1708	Swanson-D California Sentencing Commission	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1724	Jones-D Vehicles: impoundment: illegal dumping	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1725	Lieu-D Judicial candidates: evaluation	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1726	Assembly Judiciary Committee Court interpreters	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1751	Fuentes-D Vehicles: nuisance abatement: impoundment	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1757	Hayashi-D Parole hearings	Corrections
AB 1762	Salas-D Bail bonds: premiums	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1765	Blakeslee-R Elder abuse: mandated reporters	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1766	Blakeslee-R Human smuggling	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1767	Ma-D Civil compromise: vandalism	Procedural
AB 1769	Galgiani-D Jury service: peace officer exemption	Juries
AB 1771	Ma-D Domestic violence: restraining orders	Domestic Violence
AB 1812	Arambula-D Peace officer tax checkoff	Law Enforcement
AB 1820	Galgiani-D Counties: homicide trials: reimbursement	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1822	Beall-D Spousal support: sex offenders	Family Law
AB 1823	Beall-D Local juvenile justice coordinating councils	Juvenile Justice
AB 1826	Beall-D Drug forfeiture laws	Controlled Substances
AB 1828	Huff-R Jury exemption: poll workers	Juries
AB 1852	Jeffries-R Sports betting pools	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1854	Garrick-R Grand juries	Juries
AB 1855	Portantino-D Public safety officers	Law Enforcement
AB 1857	DeVore-R Fleeing homicide suspects	Law Enforcement
AB 1859*	Adams-R Theft: fire hydrant parts	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1864	DeVore-R Juvenile justice	Juvenile Justice
AB 1866	Mendoza-D Retail service contracts	Civil Law
AB 1868*	Walters-R Charter schools: government tort claims	Civil Law
AB 1873	Lieu-D Small claims court	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1876	De Leon-D Superior court security	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1877	Adams-R Child custody evaluations: confidentiality	Family Law
AB 1880*	Tran-R Guardians and conservators: bonds	Civil Law
AB 1882	Garrick-R DUI: illegal aliens	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1883	Keene-R Fire: inmate crews: nonprofit organization	Corrections
AB 1891	Niello-R Civil procedure: sanctions	Civil Law
AB 1899	Cook-R Crime prevention	Law Enforcement
AB 1900	Nava-D Penalty assessments: Santa Barbara Trauma Center	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 1903*	Hernandez-D Liability: flood control and water conservation facilities	Civil Law
AB 1905	Adams-R Appeals: class action certification	Civil Law
AB 1906	Salas-D Identity theft: insurance	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 1923	Anderson-R Local correctional facilities: contraband	Corrections
AB 1931	Silva-R Peace officer powers: illegal dumping officers	Law Enforcement
AB 1946	Nava-D Hazardous materials: statute of limitations	Civil Law
AB 1949	Evans-D Court operations	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 1953	Jeffries-R Peace officers: district attorney investigators	Law Enforcement
AB 1958	Swanson-D Department of Motor Vehicles: confidentiality of addresses	Law Enforcement
AB 1961	Swanson-D Nonviolent drug offenses	Controlled Substances
AB 1965	Swanson-D Prisoners: early release	Corrections
AB 1969	Plescia-R Crimes against police dogs or horses	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1975	Solorio-D Missing persons: DNA database	Law Enforcement
AB 1976	Benoit-R Crimes: emergency telephone system: abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1977	Benoit-R Law enforcement communications	Law Enforcement
AB 1979	Aghazarian-R Firearm violence education program	Weapons
AB 1984	Swanson-D Corrections: HIV/AIDS testing	Corrections
AB 1987	Villines-R Child abuse by force: sentencing	Child Abuse
AB 1990	Solorio-D Peace officers: impersonation	Law Enforcement
AB 1994*	Gaines-R Economic crimes: sentencing	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1995	Jeffries-R Arson: aggravated: punishment	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 1996	Swanson-D Drug felonies: food stamps: eligibility	Corrections
AB 2007	Horton-R Sex offenders: Internet web site	Sex Offenders
AB 2014	Tran-R Conservators and guardians: foreign jurisdictions	Civil Law
AB 2017	Garrick-R Family support: tax refunds and lottery winnings	Family Law
AB 2020	Fuentes-D Residential property contracts: liquidated damages	Civil Law
AB 2021	Fuentes-D Personal information: credit cards	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 2022	Fuentes-D Driving without a license	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2025	Silva-R Commercial real property: termination of tenancy	Civil Law
AB 2028	Solorio-D Peace officers: hiring	Law Enforcement
AB 2029	Tran-R Dependent children: visitation	Juvenile Justice
AB 2035	Ma-D Domestic violence	Domestic Violence
AB 2038	Lieber-D Victims of crime: persons with disabilities	Victims of Crime
AB 2039	Arambula-D Department of Motor Vehicles: records	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2042	Fuentes-D Vehicles: removal	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2043	Spitzer-R Crime victims' memorial: State Capitol Park	Victims of Crime
AB 2052*	Lieu-D Domestic violence: residential tenancies	Domestic Violence Civil Law
AB 2062	De Leon-D Ammunition	Weapons
AB 2068	Aghazarian-R Domestic violence	Domestic Violence Law Enforcement
AB 2070	Bass-D Incarcerated parents: foster care	Corrections
AB 2073	Benoit-R DUI related offenses: motor vehicles and vessels	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2092	De La Torre-D Criminal procedure: public office holders	Procedural
AB 2095	Davis-D Courts: judicial appointments	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 2098	Krekorian-D Animals: nonambulatory: cruelty	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2099	Hancock-D Inmates: identification cards	Corrections
AB 2100	Wolk-D Elder abuse: reporting	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2104	Smyth-R Pornography: unauthorized photographs of minors	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2105	DeSaulnier-D Elder and dependent adult abuse	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2108	Spitzer-R Parole: discharge	Corrections
AB 2109	Spitzer-R Parole: discharge	Corrections
AB 2117	Evans-D Dependent children: psychotropic medications	Juvenile Justice
AB 2119	Galgiani-D Corrections: medical equipment and care	Corrections
AB 2125*	Price-D Supplemental local law enforcement funding	Law Enforcement
AB 2126	Horton-R Identity theft	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 2131	Niello-R Peace officers and firefighters: canine units	Law Enforcement
AB 2141	Tran-R Corrections: foreign inmates	Corrections
AB 2155	Garcia-R Trespass: Indian gaming facilities	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2158	Soto-D Correctional officer: bloodborne diseases	Corrections
AB 2164	Nakanishi-R County law libraries	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 2166	Tran-R Bail forfeiture: appeals	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2169	Cook-R Sex offenders: ice cream truck operations	Sex Offenders
AB 2170	Cook-R Fireworks	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2172	Cook-R Elder abuse: registry	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2189	Karnette-D Shorthand reporters: continuing education	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 2190	Emmerson-R Child abuse: witnessing domestic violence	Child Abuse
AB 2193	Tran-R Civil discovery: out-of-state proceedings	Civil Law
AB 2198	Soto-D Public officers: false representation	Law Enforcement
AB 2199	Plescia-R Attorney General: aliens	Law Enforcement
AB 2204	De La Torre-D Real property: discriminatory restrictions	Civil Law
AB 2215*	Berryhill-R Peace officers: county custodial officers.	Law Enforcement
AB 2221	Wolk-D Unclaimed property: escheat: investments	Civil Law
AB 2225	Emmerson-R District attorneys and city attorneys	Law Enforcement
AB 2228	Cook-R Capital cases: witnesses	Procedural
AB 2231	Hayashi-D Domestic violence: marriage licenses	Domestic Violence
AB 2235	DeSaulnier-D Owner-authorized handguns.	Weapons
AB 2245	Soto-D Illegal dumping officers: use of batons	Law Enforcement
AB 2247	Spitzer-R Guardianships and conservatorships	Civil Law
AB 2248	Spitzer-R Wills: requirements	Civil Law
AB 2252	DeSaulnier-D Youth policy	Juvenile Justice
AB 2262	Torrico-D Child protection: safe surrender of newborns	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2279	Leno-D Medical marijuana: qualified patients and primary caregivers	Controlled Substances Civil Law
AB 2281	Nava-D Crime: dog fighting	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2289	Sharon Runner-R Juvenile: victims' rights	Juvenile Justice Victims of Crime
AB 2296*	Mullin-D Crimes: academic research	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2299	Silva-R Maintenance of the codes	Civil Law
AB 2304	Plescia-R Name changes	Civil Law
AB 2306	Karnette-D Battering: writ of habeas corpus	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2310	Maze-R Dependent children	Juvenile Justice
AB 2329	Garcia-R Crimes: vandalism	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2333	Price-D Public safety agencies: conduct policy	Law Enforcement
AB 2334	Sharon Runner-R Sexually violent predators: parole	Sex Offenders Corrections
AB 2337	Beall-D Child abuse reporting	Child Abuse
AB 2341	Maze-R Minors: reunification services	Juvenile Justice
AB 2343	Caballero-D Public guardians: public administrators and conservators	Civil Law
AB 2352	Fuentes-D Health services: confidential information	Civil Law
AB 2354	Galgiani-D Sex offenses: obscene matter	Sex Offenders
AB 2355	Aghazarian-R Criminal threats: public officials	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2357	Duvall-R Courts: private information	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 2362	Keene-R State records: personal information: security breaches	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 2363	Ma-D Sex Offenders Management Board	Sex Offenders
AB 2377	Hayashi-D Law enforcement: custodial officers	Law Enforcement
AB 2379	Evans-D Sealing and unsealing court records	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 2383	Ruskin-D Social security numbers	Privacy/Identity Theft
AB 2399	Portantino-D Juveniles: independent living program	Juvenile Justice
AB 2401	Karnette-D Delinquent parking citations	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2405	Arambula-D Domestic violence: fees	Domestic Violence
AB 2408	Nava-D Sexual offenses by juveniles	Sex Offenders Juvenile Justice
AB 2409	Nava-D Juvenile case files: proceedings	Juvenile Justice
AB 2410	Nava-D Crime: sexually violent predators	Sex Offenders Victims of Crime
AB 2417	Sharon Runner-R Crime	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2418	Huff-R Bail	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2419	Huff-R DUI: noncitizens.	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2420	Huff-R Arrests: policy: immigration	Law Enforcement
AB 2422	Huff-R Corrections: undocumented felons	Corrections
AB 2428	Strickland-R Protective orders: victim notification	Domestic Violence Law Enforcement
AB 2433	Krekorian-D Civil discovery: subpoenas	Civil Law
AB 2448	Feuer-D Courts: access to justice	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 2470	Karnette-D Crimes: weapons	Weapons
AB 2483	Bass-D Wards and dependent children: programs of supervision	Juvenile Justice
AB 2487	Berg-D Domestic violence: restitution	Domestic Violence
AB 2498	Saldana-D Firearms training: eligibility to possess firearms	Weapons
AB 2523	Sharon Runner-R Crime: contact with a minor	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2524	Benoit-R California Gambling Control Commission: background check	Law Enforcement
AB 2525	Galgiani-D Criminal behavior: preschool attendance	Juvenile Justice Corrections
AB 2533	Keene-R Civil remedies: disability access	Civil Law
AB 2541	Bass-D Reentry courts: deferred entry of judgement	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 2553	Solorio-D Domestic violence: ex parte orders.	Domestic Violence
AB 2562	Fuller-R Criminal street gangs: registration	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2566	Hancock-D Firearms: prohibitions	Weapons
AB 2574	Emmerson-R Jails: inmate welfare funds	Corrections
AB 2587	Ruskin-D Child custody: child custody evaluators	Family Law
AB 2590	Feuer-D Firearms: criminal street gangs	Other Crimes and Sentencing Weapons
AB 2593	Adams-R Sex offender information	Sex Offenders
AB 2606	Emmerson-R Bad check diversion program	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2609	Davis-D Vandalism: penalties: community service	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2616	DeVore-R Free speech	Civil Law
AB 2618	Solorio-D Child abuse central index	Child Abuse
AB 2619	Charles Calderon-D Civil actions: witnesses	Civil Law
AB 2621	Walters-R Criminal profiteering: asset forfeiture	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2624	Strickland-R Ethics in government	Civil Law
AB 2642	Niello-R Unclaimed property	Civil Law
AB 2651*	Aghazarian-R Child welfare laws: child abuse registry	Child Abuse Juvenile Justice Family Law
AB 2652	Anderson-R Prisoners: health and social services	Corrections
AB 2654	Laird-D Discrimination	Civil Law
AB 2668	DeVore-R Property crimes	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2669	Krekorian-D Speeding: violation point counts	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2671	Salas-D Prisoners: veterans	Corrections
AB 2681	Smyth-R Sex offenders: Internet access	Sex Offenders
AB 2682	Houston-R Electronic communication devices: threats to safety	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2683	Houston-R Title insurance: mechanics' liens	Civil Law
AB 2690	Krekorian-D Product liability actions: pharmaceutical products	Civil Law
AB 2693	Karnette-D Local transportation officers	Law Enforcement
AB 2696	Krekorian-D Firearms: background checks	Weapons
AB 2698	Charles Calderon-D Career technical education: peace officer	Law Enforcement
AB 2706	Feuer-D Dangerous weapons: composite hard knuckles	Weapons
AB 2718	Sharon Runner-R Child molestation	Sex Offenders
AB 2724	Benoit-R Metal theft: local fines	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2738	Jones-D Indemnification: construction contracts	Civil Law
AB 2743	Saldana-D Medical marijuana: nonassistance with federal raids	Controlled Substances
AB 2745	Berryhill-R Crime victims' rights	Victims of Crime
AB 2748	Soto-D Foster care: expanded rights: children	Juvenile Justice
AB 2750	Krekorian-D Music and audio-visual privacy: restitution	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2754	Bass-D Public safety personnel: MRSA skin infections	Law Enforcement
AB 2766	Fuentes-D Driving under the influence: administrative hearing	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2780	Lieu-D Damages: lost profits	Civil Law
AB 2798	Walters-R Vehicles: speeding	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2799	Saldana-D Hate crimes	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2801	Carter-D Conflict of interest: settlements	Civil Law
AB 2802	Houston-R Vehicles: alcohol-related reckless driving	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2809	Leno-D Crime victims: mental health counseling	Victims of Crime
AB 2810	Brownley-D Crimes: human trafficking	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2816	Solorio-D Crimes: graffiti	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2827	Sharon Runner-R Defrauding a public housing agency	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2849	Evans-D Civil actions: bees: damages	Civil Law
AB 2873	Solorio-D Counties: sheriffs' duties: coastlines, harbors, and inland	Law Enforcement
AB 2874	Lieber-D Civil rights: cap on damages	Civil Law
AB 2877	Lieber-D Female offenders: medical and dental care	Corrections
AB 2878	Anderson-R Enforcement of judgments: homesteads exemptions	Civil Law
AB 2881	Wolk-D Nuisance: agricultural activity	Civil Law
AB 2884*	Portantino-D Motor vehicle operation: TV broadcast	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2927	Bass-D Juveniles: dual status children	Juvenile Justice
AB 2929	Hancock-D Corrections reentry program	Corrections
AB 2937	Solorio-D Wrongful convictions and arrests	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2943	Lieber-D Corporal punishment	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2947	Eng-D Elder and dependent adult abuse: waiver of rights	Other Crimes and Sentencing
AB 2948	Leno-D Firearms: sales at the Cow Palace	Weapons
AB 2949	DeSaulnier-D Involuntary deposits: abandoned pets	Civil Law
AB 2951	Eng-D Vehicles: speed contests: forfeiture of vehicle	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
AB 2960	La Malfa-R Custody orders: evidence of sexual abuse	Sex Offenders Law Enforcement Family Law
AB 2972	Lieber-D Corrections: female offenders	Corrections
AB 2973	Soto-D Weapons: stun guns	Weapons
AB 3004	Duvall-R Vehicle: liens	Civil Law
AB 3013	Levine-D Judgment liens	Civil Law
AB 3019	Carter-D Corrections: disabled and mentally ill prisoners	Corrections
AB 3032	Lieber-D Innocence Protection Program	Law Enforcement
AB 3038*	Tran-R Sex offenders: probations	Sex Offenders
AB 3049	Assembly Judiciary Committee State Bar Act: fees	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 3050	Jones-D Legal aid: court interpreters: appearances by telephone	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 3051	Jones-D Juveniles: dependent children	Juvenile Justice
AB 3052	Jones-D Court facilities	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AB 3076*	Huffman-D Vehicles: Maddy Emergency Medical Services Fund	Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
ACA 2	Walters-R Eminent domain	Civil Law
ACA 8	De La Torre-D Eminent domain	Civil Law
ACR 9	Dymally-D Legislative Task Force on Substance Abuse	Controlled Substances
ACR 24	Blakeslee-R Correctional facilities: reimbursement	Corrections
ACR 44	Maze-R Sexual Assault Awareness Month	Sex Offenders
ACR 63	Keene-R Butte County Officers: Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 80	Garcia-R CHP Officer Robert Franklin Dickey Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 90	Fuller-R Deputy Sheriff William "Joe" Hudnall, Jr., Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 96	Carter-D Deputy Frank M. Pribble Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 106	Nava-D Internet violence prevention	Law Enforcement
ACR 108	Eng-D Hate Crimes Awareness Month	Other Crimes and Sentencing
ACR 118	Plescia-R Identity Theft Awareness Day	Privacy/Identity Theft
ACR 127	Tran-R Garden Grove Police Officers Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 128	Arambula-D Officer Sixto Maldonado, Jr., Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 132	Smyth-R National Missing Children's Day	Law Enforcement
ACR 141	La Malfa-R CHP Officer Andrew "Andy" Stevens Memorial Highway	Law Enforcement
ACR 144	Anderson-R Border Patrol Officer Neil Wilkie Hepburn Memorial Bridge	Law Enforcement
AJR 29	Eng-D Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act	Law Enforcement
AJR 38	Levine-D Training for Realtime Writers Act of 2007	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
AJR 42	Garcia-R Domestic violence	Domestic Violence
AJR 46	Benoit-R Right to keep and bear arms	Weapons
AJR 60	Evans-D Speech: Shield law for journalists	Civil Law
AJR 72	Jones-D Racial, ethnic, and religious profiling	Law Enforcement
AB 8XXX*	Assembly Budget Committee Judgeships: 2007-08 Budget	Courts and Judges/Legal Professions